clarifying some confusion...

[acroyear]

...about the MacAllan scotch distillery.

It is, indeed, a "Speyside" scotch, just like GlenDronach and Balvenie and many others.  It is first labeled a "highland" scotch to distinguish it from the lowlands, not because it's a highland in the sense of a scotch from the Inverness area or from Oban.

Update: brain had farted - too much GlenMorangie - GlenMorangie's not a speyside, but is from Ross-shire, the region in the middle of the highlands joining east and west and going west to the coastline and including Inverness. Specifically, Tain is a village in the north on the way up into Caithness, and dammit I should have known that 'cause faireraven & I ate lunch there back in '00.

Comments

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

you weren't at the party to back me up.

[mandrakan.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the clarification (sure, I could have looked it up, but I didn't).

But, um, is it really necessary to distinguish a scotch from the numerousTHREE scotch whiskies distilled in the lowlands?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

well, there used to be more, and they used to be more popular. things changed.

[mandrakan.livejournal.com]

And while MacAllan is a Speyside, GlenMorangie is not.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

the post has been so corrected with a pointer to a much larger list.