To help your find our events on the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival website, here are our events at the festival with links to them. It will be a different feel to our events this year due to events beyond our control, but we think it will still be fabulous.
Thursday 2 May
18:00 - The First Drop with The Whisky Shop Dufftown Team (60 mins, £25)
Kick off your festival in Dufftown with this informal tasting of 4 whiskies. Each one has been selected by a member of The Whisky Shop Dufftown team to help launch your festival. The tasting will be hosted by Vicky and Mike from The Whisky Shop Dufftown.
Friday 3 May
18:00 - Douglas Laing with Callum Neilly (75 mins, £40)
In this tasting you will get to try a specially curated selection of single malts from independent bottler Douglas Laing with host Callum Neilly.
20:00 - Mother v Daughter (75 mins, £40)
This tasting is a once in a lifetime, never to be seen again, opportunity to experience mother and daughter, Vicky and Kat of The Whisky Shop Dufftown, host a tasting.
Saturday 4 May
18:00 - TBC
20:00 - Watt Whisky with Mark Watt (75 mins, £40)
Join the irrepressible Mark Watt from independent bottler The Campbeltown Whisky Company to try 6 whiskies from their recent releases.
Sunday 5 May
18:00 - Berry Bros & Rudd with Christina McDiarmid (75 mins, £40)
Come join Christina McDiarmid from Berry Bros & Rudd and try a selection of single cask whiskies from one of the UK’s oldest independent bottlers.
20:00 - Marc Pendelbury from WhiskyBrother (75 mins, £40)
Join Marc Pendlebury, founder and co-owner of WhiskyBrother and Whisky Capital Inn, to explore some recent WhiskyBrother exclusive releases. We will explore five Speyside whiskies, all single casks bottled at cask strength from various independent bottlers, showcasing some of the wonderful range of flavours available from Speyside distilleries.
Monday 6 May
18:00 - Reminiscing Over Drams with Mike & Vicky (75 mins, £40)
Mike has owned The Whisky Shop Dufftown for the best part of 2 decades and Vicky has been his key helper for 14 years. They have seen some things in that time and they want to share with 6 fantastic drams specially selected to reflect the good times and the not so good times.
20:00 - The Final Drop (120 mins, £25)
This event used to be the must-go-to tasting of the festival in Dufftown. After several years, it now returns for one last time! This is the most informal of tastings with bottles taken from the store cupboards of The Whisky Shop Dufftown for you try in your own time and at your open pace. This gives you the time to chat to other guests about where they have been and what they have sampled.
We are also looking at some free in-store barrel top tastings. More to follow.