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Glenkinchie

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The visit to the Glenkinchie distillery is rather traditional, and perfectly in the style of visits organised by great industral groups like Diageo.
The distillery is important from the point of view of toursme, as it is the only one in the close neighbourhood of Edimburgh.
The visit is guided by a charming lady who actually kwows her matter quite good, but who misses the real experience, like it is very often the case with this kind of visits. This unlike the visit of Caol Ila for instance (even if Caol Ila belongs to the same group), where the visit is guided by a former worker of the distillery, who spent 30 years of his life making whisky.

However, the visit of Glenkinchie is warmly recommanded, not really because of the distillery itself, but because of the very nice distillery museum it hostes.

A very nice and pedagocical scale model makes understanding ot the working of a distillery and the making of whisky process very clear.

 
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