We are pleased to present our program for the 2014 Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival:

Thursday 1st May
Liquid Treasures – A Whisky Treasure Hunt
Follow clues set by the Tomintoul and Glenlivet Development Trust to find liquid treasure. Thursday is Glenfarclas day. Follow the hunt at #liquidtreasures.
To register for this free event, and for more info click here.

Thursday 1st May 9.30am – 5.00pm
Spirits of the Glens
Join the Tomintoul and Glenlivet Development Trust for a tour of Glenfarclas, The Glenlivet, Tomintoul, Cragganmore and Tamnavulin distilleries. This ‘whisky festival in a day’ tour includes a whisky lunch in Tomintoul.
£230 per person. For full details, and to book, please click here.

Thursday 1st May 10.30am – 12.30pm
Seven decades of Glenfarclas with Kate Watt
Owned by the Grant family for six generations, Glenfarclas is in the enviable, and possibly unique, position of having stock available from seven different decades. Join Kate Watt, Sales & Marketing Executive, for a tour of the Glenfarclas distillery and the opportunity to try seven whiskies, with one from each of the seven decades; 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s. This will include a selection of current bottlings, and cask samples.
£85.00 per person, 28 places. To book please click here.

Thursday 1st May 3.15pm – 5.15pm
Manager’s Tour with Callum Fraser
Join Callum Fraser, our Production Manager, for a tour of the Glenfarclas distillery followed by a tasting of five whiskies. Callum, who has 23 years experience in whisky distilling, joined Glenfarclas in December 2012. This promises to be an interesting tour as Callum reflects on his first eighteen months in post, and shares his enthusiasm for the future of the distillery. After the tour Callum will introduce you to a selection of five of his favourite Glenfarclas expressions. £60.00 per person, 10 places. To book please click here.

Friday 2nd May 3.15pm – 5.15pm
Glenfarclas 1988 Visitor Centre Exclusive Launch with Ian McWilliam
After a tour of the family owned Glenfarclas distillery, join Ian McWilliam, Marketing Executive, for a tasting to celebrate the launch our new visitor centre exclusive bottling, a twenty five year old single cask from 1988. For comparison Ian will also present a selection of four other 25 year old Glenfarclas whiskies, including single casks and vintage bottlings.
£50.00 per person, 28 places. To book please click here.

Saturday 3rd May 3.00pm – 5.00pm
Glenfarclas Tasting at The Mash Tun, Aberlour
Join George Grant, the sixth generation of the Grant family of Glenfarclas and Douglas Belford, at The Mash Tun in Aberlour for an afternoon of whisky tasting through the Glenfarclas range.
Ticket price includes a Mash Tun Glencairn whisky glass to take home.
£22.50 per person. To book please click here.

Monday 5th May 10.30am – 12.30pm
The Family Casks – Help choose the 1999 bottling with George Grant
The Family Casks are a unique collection of single casks whiskies, with at least one cask bottled for every year from 1952 to 1998. To select the casks for each year, George Grant has nosed over 200 different casks. Now he would like you to assist in selecting the cask for the 1999 vintage to add to the collection. After a tour of the distillery, and a tasting of a selection of The Family Casks, George Grant will introduce a short list of 1999 cask samples, for you to nose, taste, comment on and then vote on. The chosen cask will then go forward for bottling, to be released for sale later in the year. £55.00 per person, 28 places. To book please click here