acroyear: (scotch whiskey)
Joe's Ancient Jottings ([personal profile] acroyear) wrote2006-10-09 10:45 pm
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clarifying some confusion...

...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 [livejournal.com profile] faireraven & I ate lunch there back in '00.

[identity profile] acroyear70.livejournal.com 2006-10-10 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
well, there used to be more, and they used to be more popular. things changed.