Distillery Tours

Join us on a Guided Speyside & Highlands Distilleries Experience 2025!

We host exclusive, week long Guided Speyside & Highlands Distillery Experiences and we plan to host our next trip in 2025. The dates for this experience will be Saturday 12th April to Saturday 19th April 2025. Please contact us if you would like further information.

During this wonderful experience our home for the week will be Dalvey House near Forres in the heart of Speyside, this is the perfect location for driving out to distilleries each day.

Whats included in the Guided Speyside Distilleries Experience?

Large traditional accommodation in beautiful surrounding with roaring fires.

All food specially prepared by our chef – breakfast, packed lunch and evening meals.

Complimentary transport to and from distillery events and complimentary transfers to and from Inverness or Inverness airport.

A full itinerary of distillery tours and tastings, and visits to beauty spots and places of historic interest

David Wood, former Caol Ila Distillery Manager as your host for the week

We think that this is an exclusive experience, an opportunity for you to join a small group of whisky enthusiasts in the whisky capital of the world with industry experts as your hosts for the week. You will be staying in beautiful accommodation and you won’t need to make any arrangements for food or transport whilst you are with us as it will all be provided for you.

I was hosting a whisky tasting event at a lovely venue in Leeds in March where I had the pleasure of meeting Rob from The Yorkshire Gent website. Rob is a keen whisky enthusiast and a fly fisherman so he was keen to hear all about Fly Fish Islay as well as understanding exactly what we do at Distilled Events.

We have hosted Guided Islay Distillery Experiences for many years but myself and my good friend Glen Pointon also take anglers, especially anglers who appreciate single malt whisky, to Islay on week long fly fishing trips. Rob has kept an eye on Glen’s antics on Facebook over the years and was keen to interview us both whilst we were on Islay in April hosting our first Guided Islay Fly Fishing Experience of 2017.

The interview took place very late one evening as the guests were relaxing in front of the spitting fire with large glasses of Bunnahabhain and Laphroaig single malt whiskies. Rob had originally suggested that we record the interview over skype but the weather had turned very stormy and our internet was disrupted to we had to record it over the phone, which I think adds to the remote feel.

During the interview we talk about why Islay is such an amazing destination for the whisky and / or fly fishing enthusiast. We talk about how we came to set up Fly Fish Islay and how guests join us on a Guided Islay Fly Fishing Experience. Glen talks in-depth about what to expect from the fishing and what tactics he finds to work best as well as offering a comparison between Scottish loch style fishing and English stillwater fishing. I also talk about how I ended up living and working on Islay in the whisky industry.

Pour a dram and enjoy.

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Join Us on a Guided Islay Experience

We would love to host your trip to Islay, whether it be to enjoy the fishing, to visit distilleries, or maybe for a little bit of both! If you are interested in joining one of our guided experiences or if you would like us to arrange a bespoke trip for you and your friends or colleagues, please call David on 07875 405 980 or get in touch via our contact page.