Visit Grantown on Spey

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This is a nice, small ruin conveniently located for the Speyside Whisky Trail. It is open all year round with free entry. Access is via the signposted car park. Exact date of construction is unknown but it is thought that constrcution dates to around the 1370s and it may have been built on the site of a former Iron Age fort. The castle used to be the stronghold of Alexander Stewart aka ‘the ‘Wolf of Badenoch’ who lived 1342–1406

river spey after spate

A photo competition open to all and staged at the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival 2008

The river Spey in spate! The Spey is one of Scotland’s big four salmon rivers. It has the third largest drainage area after the Tay and Tweed and is the second longest river after the Tay river. It falls on average 13 feet per mile which is more than any other on main land Britain. It is snow fed from the Cairngorm & Monadhliath mountains and this can mean the river staying high until early June. … Speyside Whisky Whiskey River Spey Scotland Cairngorms Monadhliath spate flood Moray …

Martine Nouet, editor, of the Whisky Magazine in France and frequent whisky judge, what she thought were the defining characteristics of Speyside whisky. The venue was a committee room in the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood. The event was the first round of the Spirirt of Speyside whisky awards.

Robin Laing sings about Speyside whiskies at the Gordon Hotel in Tomintoul