Larissa Guerrini – Page 3 – The Craigellachie Hotel

Don’t leave your furry best friend behind!

Are you planning your next stay at The Craigellachie? Don’t leave your furry best friend behind! As a proud dog-friendly hotel, our staff always goes the extra mile to make your dogs feel at home. The Craigellachie Bridge beach and the Speyside Way are just a two-minute walk away, offering the perfect backdrop to make […]

WHISKY OF THE WEEK – 17th June

Raasay Distillery exclusive 🥃 This will be the first time I have spoken about Raasay as a whisky of the week, but you will have seen me speak about it during one of our video whisky tastings. Raasay has a really special place in my heart. I moved out to work on the island just after Covid when things were opening up again, and I was there for 6 months. I think I speak for anyone who has ever spent a bit of time on the island. There is just something really special about it, and it keeps drawing you back in. That’s why a couple of weeks ago, I took the opportunity to go back and visit the island and see some familiar faces and, of course, drink some of the new whisky coming from the distillery. This Handfill was on when I was there and the cask make up just had me fascinated; it is a Dutch oak cask which was used for red wine and then emptied and filled with oloroso sherry, emptied again and filled with unpeated Raasay new make. This is a whisky that needs to be tried to be understood. -Calum Diack, Quaich Bar Manager

This will be the first time I have spoken about Raasay as a whisky of the week, but you will have seen me speak about it during one of our video whisky tastings. Raasay has a really special place in my heart. I moved out to work on the island just after Covid when things […]

WHISKY OF THE WEEK – 10th June

Abhainn Dearg has slowly been making its way to the front of the line of my favourite distilleries in Scotland. Set up in 2008 by Marko, it was the first legal distillery on the outer Hebrides since 1829, when the old Stornoway distillery closed its doors and was demolished. Abhainn Dearg, which means Red River […]

WHISKY OF THE WEEK – 3rd June

Last week, I spent my time on holiday in the beautiful Western Isles, spending most of my time on Lewis and Harris. I got to visit both Abhainn Dearg and the distillery that makes the whisky we are featuring this week, the Isle of Harris Distillery. Last year, we had the first 8 batches of […]

WHISKY OF THE WEEK – 27th May

Completing our little trio of festival bottlings is this Spectacular Ardbeg, and the final of our whisky festivals in May is the legendary Feis Ile (The Islay Festival). If you love to feel like you are licking a bonfire at the same as sticking your head in a BBQ, the Islay Festival is for you! […]

WHISKY OF THE WEEK – 20th May

The month of May in Scotland means it’s time for the whisky festivals. This week, it’s the turn of Scotland’s smallest whisky region, Campbeltown. Campbeltown used to be the beating heart of the whisky business in the Victorian era, with 30+ active distilleries in the town. Unfortunately, overproduction and a drop in quality led to […]

WHISKY OF THE WEEK – 13th May

After a few days of recovering, curing hangovers and taking stock of which whisky we have left, we are back with our new whisky of the week. The festival was an amazing experience, with each of our events being fun and informative. One of the best things about the Spirit of Speyside is the distillery […]

NEW WHISKIES AT THE QUAICH BAR

The Craigellachie Hotel was described by Condé Nast Traveller as “the oldest and greatest whisky hotel in the world”. The Craigellachie has 26 bedrooms, and it’s home to the oldest pub in Speyside: the Spey Inn, an old drovers inn dating back to 1703, and to the world-renowned Quaich Bar, where guests and tourists can savour over 1,000 single-malt whiskies alongside some of the best cocktails.

“The best whisky hotel in all of Scotch Country” – Forbes … and home to the world-famous Quaich Bar. This week, as Speyside celebrates the Whisky Festival, The Craigellachie is buzzing more than ever, serving as the backdrop for some of the most iconic events. And speaking of whisky, we have some exciting news to […]

WHISKY OF THE WEEK – 29th April

IT’S FESTIVAL TIME WOOO! I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of our Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival than having our whisky of the week being a distillery celebrating its 20th anniversary since it reopened (well, in 2018 it was celebrating). Even though this whisky was first released in 2018, […]

WHISKY OF THE WEEK – 22nd April

Glenury Royal 29 Year Old 🥃 I’m a whisky nerd and a history nerd, so when both of them join together, nothing makes me happier in the world. We are lucky in the Quaich to have 9 whiskies from the lost distilleries all over Scotland, but one that has a special place in my heart is this Glenury Royal, which is from near my home city of Aberdeen in the seaside town of Stonehaven. Unfortunately, the distillery fell silent in 1983 and was later turned into flats, and some of it was demolished. It is a distillery with such a history, one too big to talk about in this post, but one I will happily share if you have some to pop into the Quaich Bar. The smell of this whisky is like dry smoke, old leather, an ancient library and citrus. There is a light freshness to the taste, followed by vanilla, herbal notes, and dry smoke again. This is a really oily whisky that brings me to a time before I was born. This whisky is just pure joy bottled up! - Calum Diack, Quaich Bar Manager #whiskyoftheweek

I’m a whisky nerd and a history nerd, so when both of them join together, nothing makes me happier in the world. We are lucky in the Quaich to have 9 whiskies from the lost distilleries all over Scotland, but one that has a special place in my heart is this Glenury Royal, which is […]

Author: Larissa Guerrini