Edinburgh: Holyrood Distillery Whisky and Gin Tour & Tasting
Explore Holyrood Distillery, Edinburgh's first single malt producer in 100 years. Experience whisky and gin tasting with insights into craft methods and award-winning recipes.
10 meals
Experience Details
Join us for our classic tour - the perfect introduction to Holyrood Distillery!
Sip on a seasonal cocktail as your guide welcomes you to the distillery. Let us introduce you to our story as we put Edinburgh back onto the whisky map as the city’s first single malt distillery for over a hundred years.
Alongside a sample of our classic expression, learn about how we apply our whisky-making ethos to create our award-winning Height of Arrows Gin with just 3 ingredients.
In our whisky distillery, watch our washbacks foaming and our copper stills bubbling as your guide highlights the different stages of scotch production. From heritage and speciality malts to alternative yeasts, find out more about what we do differently to create exciting and innovative flavours for our single malts.
Following a tutored tasting of our single malt whisky, delve deeper into our methods of flavour creation through our careful selection of seasoned oak barrels from around the world.
What You Get
Good To Know
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Service animals allowed
What You’ll Experience
Holyrood Distillery
Meeting & Pickup
Meeting PointHolyrood Distillery, Saint Leonard's Lane, Edinburgh Scotland, United Kingdom, GB, EH8 9SH
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End PointThis experience ends at the meeting point.
Cancellation Policy
Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.
Thanks Courtney for a great tour and knowledge. Great tastes. Unusual combinations. Gins & whiskeys best. Will come back.
It was a surprisingly pleasant visit to a relatively new brewery. The briefing was really well organized with a very knowledgeable guide. It was both informative and interactive where questions wer...read more
Very interesting. Very friendly staff. A small and recent innovative distillery. Recent and local production
Great tour especially if you don't have a lot of time to explore outside of Edinburgh. I learned a lot about gin and the flavor was great.
nice tour. Good explanation of how whisky, Gin and New made 1st or 2nd year whisky (it has to mature for 3 years before it can be called Whisky), are made with room for questions. You can also tast...read more
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10 meals
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