Today was a day of navigation mishaps. We had a great plan- hike in the morning followed by distillery tour in the afternoon. We put the trailhead location into the GPS and started on our way. A few miles into our 8-mile ride we passed a sign "This road is not maintained, proceed at your own risk" - if only there had been a good place to turn around. The lambo did well, although there are a few extra scratches on the paint finish. (Micki is glad Filip was driving.) The terrain got worse after the video...
We began our hike that was supposed to have an amazing view at the end- only to miss the last turn and add an extra 2miles to our trek, so sadly we missed the view but we did have a great hike in the woods (with raspberries). And we had a great test run of our new hiking shoes from REI (although no opportunity to try the binocolars).
The distillery tour went off without a hitch - we had a great time and sampled whiskey directly from the cask (from 1996) followed by several others taken down to bottle strength. We both preferred the peated (although Filip had the more sophisticated pallet).
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| The Mash Tun and the Wash |
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| The stills - plus the first cask from the first batch distilled in 1990 (zoom in to see the "1") |
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| The 176th cask filled in 1996 - our first tasting was from this cask. |
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| Wiskey tour ended in the pub with a proper tasting of 5 different whiskeys. |
Our guide was great - a whiskey guru - doing this since 1997
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