Ultimate Whisky Tour of Scotland (by Helicopter) View Full Screen Itinerary

Today you will arrive in Scotland and be thrown straight into the thick of it! Whisky tastings have been arranged for you at Jura, Ardnamurchan and finally Tobermoray whisky distillieries. Your first port of call will infact be Jura on the way up from the south. Having had a wonderful stop at this great and well loved island whisky, set quite apart from it's neighbours on Islay, you will fly north to the Isle of Mull. Here we have arranged for you to visit Tobermoray distillery. Lunch in Tobermoray.

Your final port of call today will be on the remote peninsula of Ardnamurchan, so remote that it seems as if another hebridian island. Ardnamurchan will be a great end to a day of fabulous tastings on Scotland's majestic West Coast giving you a good overview of the sutble differences in West Coast whiskies. 

On finishing up at your final distillery, you will then have a short flight north around the coast to your incredible private Highland lodge, on the shores of one of Scotland's most dramatic and remote sea lochs, Loch Nevis. Here you are away from the world staying at a property accessed only by boat or helicopter. You will be warmly welcomed by the team from Sandgrouse and your chef will start preparing a delicous evening meal to enjoy in the convivial dining area withing the impressive kitchen room. 

Accommodation: Loch Nevis Lodge 

This you will wake up in a hidden paradise - after a breakfast served up looking across Loch Nevis, either inside or out on the terrace, your helicopter will depart heading to the stunning Isle of Mull. Here we have arranged for another off-market experience. You will be heading out today with a local legend, former writer, turned adventurer and eithical fisherman, Guy Grieve will be inviting you aboard one of his boats - you will embark on a Scallop diving safari.

Guy dives himself, collecting incredible Scottish scallops from the seabed before preparing these delicious treats infront of you on a grill. If the weather is great, you could be in for a beach BBQ! Eitherway, a day with Guy on the water is a real Scottish experience to savour allowing you to fully connect with another of Scotland's famous industries.

Guy is quite a character, having lived a year alone in the Alaskan wilderness, sailed the Atlantic Ocean and written many books! Guy now runs his own food company, called The Ethical Shelfish Co. - supplying some of the UK's top restaurants with hand-foraged and dived scallops, crabs and lobsters.

After a great day with Guy filled with fun and laughs it will be time to fly back to your lochside lair, where an evening to remember awaits. We have arranged for you to be joined tonight for dinner by ex-SAS trooper and ocean going adventurer Tom McClean. Tom will arrive himself by boat from his remote home across the loch to regale stories and share a convivial evening filled with good food, a little more whisky and great laughs. 

This morning you will check-out of the incredible Loch Nevis Lodge, after a wonderful breakfast bid farewell to your Scottish chef and our team (for now - as we reconnect with you later today!).

You will be meeting local legend and ex-fisherman Billy who will take you straight from the moorings of the house on an trip out to sea through dramatic Loch Nevis and on to the foreboding Isle of Rum. Here you will discover the 15th largest island in Scotland, home to only 18-people. The Isle of Rum is dominated by the Red Cuillin (huge mountains in the same change of mountains as the  Isle of Skye's Cuillin range) and home to herds of Highland Ponies running wild, Sea Eagles, Red Deer and Highland Cattle. This wild and intoxicating island was once the private holiday destination of a Victorian billionaire, who build the grand Kinloch Castle on the island - Billy will take you to some of Scotland's most beautiful and remote beaches, hill lochans and more including a quick show round of Kinloch Castle. Here your pilot will be able to land and depart from! Before leaving Rum, Billy will provide you with a good dose of Gaelic Whisky and a Scottish Seafood platter picnic complete with local fresh langaustines, lobster and or salmon. 

Flying on from Rum, you will head north towards Skye which is one of Scotland's most well known islands. Lying off Skye to the east sits the beautiful Raasay island home to Raasay distillery. Here you will land at the community football pitch just 1km from the distillery, a local Land Rover Defender will be there to collect you and take you up to the distillery for a great tour of this exciting new whisky (the first bottles of which are going on sale in October 2020!). Learn more about how the distillery is trying to grow more and more of its own barley working with Scottish universities to trail crop cultivation and various strains of crop. 

This afternoon you will fly cross country as per last year to the wonderful, remote Alladale Wilderness Reserve. Here you will be met by the fabulous team who will show you around and settle you in before serving a delicious evening meal. If you have time this evening on arrival you may wish to visit the Scottish Wildcat Breeding enclosure, learning more about this vital project, or see the newly opened Aquaponics farm on site supplying fresh veg to the house kitchens!

Accommodation: Alladale Wilderness Reserve & Lodge

Today you will rise to a wonderful Alladale breakfast in the grand dining room. Enjoy a good cup of tea or coffee to get you going then jump in the Land Rover down to the helicopter. You will have a short flight south to Speyside this morning where you will have your first port of call at Murray McDavid independent bottler and whisky blender. Murray McDavid offer a unique experience into the whisky world, give you a look at an alternative side to the industry with the chance to sample and savour some very rare single malts, blends and specialities. 

After a great tour your drivers will take you back to the helicopter where you will fly on to nearby Benromach. Here you will enjoy a tasting tour (to be finalised) with a member of the distillery team. 

Lunch today will be taken at the incredible Fife Arms Hotel, one of Europe's top hotels, newly refurbished and reopened. The Fife Arms is owned by the world's largest independent art dealers, and as a result is something of a unique property! With over 14,000 pieces of individual artwork including works by Picasso and Fued. this hotel is quite a destinaton to visit in the pictureque Victorian town of Braemar. Lunch here will be taken in the Clunie Restaurant or Flying Stag bar before you are driven the short distance down the road to Royal Lochnagar Distillery. Here you will have a Warehouse Tour of this small scale, high quality whisky. The Royal in the name was bestowed upon the distillery as HM The Queen (Victoria) once visited with her family when staying at nearby Balmoral Castle. 

On finishing at Royal Lochnagar in Ballater, you will be driven back to the chopper where you will return to Alladale for an evening relaxing. 

Accommdation: Alldale Wilderness Reserve. 

Today you will be flying north from Alladale, striking out towards the very far north of Scotland and beyond. The Orkney Isles lie just a few miles of the northern most coast of mainland Britain, here you will find only two Scottish distilleries, Highland Park and Scapa both with a unique Orcadian expression. Following on from last years Highland Park visit, in 2020 you will visit Scapa distillery. 

On arrival into Kirkwall airport a driver and car will meet you and take you the short distance to Scapa distillery where a guide will be waiting to give you a comprehensive tour of the distillery complete with tastings. 

On leaving the distillery you will drive back to Kirkwall Airport where you will be able to take the chopper and fly to some near by Standing Stone sites (pre-arranged landing granded with land owners). These standing stone pre-date Stonehenge and it is believed that this area of the British Isles is where the relgion started from which crept south... 

Accommodation: Alladale Wilderness Reserve

This morning is your last at Alladale, savour the serenity of the magical Highland setting, far from the rest of the world. After breakfast you will be run down to the helicopter, where you will fly direct to Speyside's Glenfarclas Distillery. Landing nearby the Range Rovers will take you to the doors of the distillery. Here you will meet head of operations and have an in-depth tour complete with tastings of this very special and ancient Speyside distillery. 

Back at the helicopter you will then fly south to Highland Perthshire where you will visit your final distillery of the trip - Edradour Distillery sits in the charming Perthshire town of Pitlochry and again, on landing nearby to the distillery itself, your cars will take you to the doors for a tour (to be confirmed with the team).