As Spring makes itself know here at Lindores and we welcome in the sunnier days, things just get busier and busier.

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In the Visitors Centre we have welcomed tours and visitors from across the globe. On one particularly busy day we had visitors from 5 different continents – from Edinburgh to El Paso! Guests have been excited to discover some changes in the Visitors Centre including lots of new Lindores merch which will be available on the website soon – sadly our April 1^st release of “Abbey – pour femme” and “Bear – pour homme” proved too popular and are now all gone!

We have also launched our new menu of cocktails and whisky flights, along with an incredible new menu for our events. Our chef, Andrew Wilkie, is a master when it comes to creating delicious dishes using wonderful produce Scotland has to offer – and this menu absolutely exemplifies this with Lindores Lamb, St Andrews cheddar and Aqua Vitae custard (although thankfully not on the same plate!).

If you are looking for a venue for a private or corporate event – please do get in touch.

Some of our friends from across Europe might have been lucky enough to catch one of the Lindores team on one of the many trips they have taken over the past month. It has been a typically jet-set month for Elliot and Lorena with visits to Belgium and Germany. Lorena had a wonderful time in Limburg sharing the good word of Lindores – a particular highlight for her was a whisky and cheese tasting organised by a local expert cheesemonger. She can now wholeheartedly recommend pairing our STR release with blue cheese and enjoying some Red Leicester, tomatoes and pesto with our Bourbon cask releases.

Closer to home, Murray, John, Scott and Seb have been all over Scotland for tastings and shows. The Clackmannanshire Whisky Festival was a great success with lots of interest being shown in our spirit, and Murray had a similarly good show at The Biscuit Factory in Edinburgh later in the month. John and Murray also held a particularly interesting, and unique, tasting at the reopening of the Rutland Hotel in Edinburgh. The tasting was held in a bedroom to showcase the Hotel’s stylish new refurbishment – hosting 30 people for a whisky tasting with most of them sitting on the bed was not something they thought they’d ever pictured themselves doing!

For those of you interested in cask ownership at Lindores – it has been another interesting month for our Cask Custodian, Matt. He had the chance to fill a fantastic ex-peated cask for a client this month, and he is very excited about our imminent delivery of exotic casks. Keep an eye on our Facebook page for updates on these or contact Matt at casks@lindoresabbeydistillery.com for more information.

Finally, we celebrated the famous distillery cats’ 7^th birthdays! FJC and Vesper were showered in love by their 70+ thousand Instagram followers and indulged with lashings of cream – they celebrated by sleeping for most of the day. Oh, to be a cat!

Helen and Drew McKenzie Smith
Custodians of Lindores Abbey Distillery