We love this time of year, with all the new life springing up around the distillery, and the Abbey grounds are looking particularly Spring like!

This month’s biggest event locally has been the Fife Whisky Festival. We were delighted to be chosen again as the venue for the festival banquet, and sat 88 people down to dinner. With drams to match each course provided by our own Chef Wilkie, the event was hailed as a great success. The guest speaker was crime novelist Val McDermid, who grew up in Kirkcaldy. She described the dinner as ‘The best kind of night out—in beautiful surroundings with delicious food, lively conversation, and the perfect choice of drams to accompany each course.’

At the dinner, Murray, our UK Trade Manager proposed a lovely toast, acknowledging the sad passing of Aedan Burt (1993-2023). Aedan was a keen whisky enthusiast, a member of our sensory panel from the beginning, and co-founder of Fib Whisky—Fife Independent Bottlers. We mourn his loss. Fife Whisky Festival were also pleased to raise funds of around £1,000 for Age Concern Cupar during the course of the weekend.

We are in the midst of whisky show season and so Elliot, Murray, Dean, John, Scott and Matt have all been out and about across England and Europe spreading the Lindores word. We love getting to meet our Lindores fans in person whilst hopefully recruiting new ones along the way. We have already had Stirling and Fife, then Alloa and Speyside, with the incredible Islay Festival of Music and Malt from 26th May till 3rd June.

Internationally, Drew and I will be heading out to Limburg, which holds the biggest whisky festival in Germany—one of our key markets. The theme for this year’s Limburg Festival is ‘Feel the Celtic Spirit’, and we hope this bodes well for us. And Elliot has been in Nuremberg, to visit the second biggest Fair in Germany. Last week he showcased our spirits to a private whisky club, then ran our very busy stand at the three days of the Fair.

The Brand Home has leapt into Spring with both feet and it is already super busy with tours and tastings – after the long dark winter it’s always wonderful to see the place buzzing again.   We welcome our first wedding party next Saturday evening after which the events calendar swings into action with private tours, tastings, dinners, highland games, beatings of the retreat and much, much more.

We hope you are all looking forward to a wonderful Spring/Easter break, although on the personal front fortunately Friar John Claw and Vesper are blissfully unaware that their peace is about to be shattered with the arrival of Onion, a tiny terrier terror who is set to visit when part of the Lindores clan return home for the Easter break.

Slàinte, and Happy Easter!

Helen & Drew McKenzie Smith
Custodians of Lindores Abbey

CASKS OF LINDORES II BOURBON

We are very excited to be launching the latest release to the public on the 6th April, once again exclusively through selected stockists.

Step into the tantalizing world of Scotch whisky and discover the first instalment in our new Casks of Lindores II series. Aged in ex-bourbon casks and bottled at a limited-edition strength of 49.4% ABV, this whisky is bursting with flavour!

So get in contact with your favourite local independent specialist bottle shop to find out how and when you can get hold of a bottle!

STOCKISTS

Lindores Abbey Distillery
Abbey Road
Newburgh, Fife KY14 6HH
United Kingdom