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[goofy]

Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I live and work on a country estate in NE Scotland. My boss is in the process of building a country restaurant that will hopefully stock and sell the best of local produce. Anyway, he wanted suggestions as to what to stock so I suggested, as you would, whisky. I showed photos of the Highlander Inn Glendronach to highlight just what could be done. He liked it

I've now been asked to look into it, see if it is feasible and if so make it happen. The trouble is I wouldn't even know where to start. It surely can't be as simple as calling the distillery and going round to select a cask? Any advice on where to look or what to do would be welcome.

thanks

[badgerbrown]

Hi Goofy,

I'm not sure if you mean you want to stock a whisky bar or if you want to stock your own bottled whisky, but if it is the latter you could do worse than to contact http://www.whiskybroker.co.uk as he can help with sourcing, bottling, labelling, paying taxes, and everything else that goes with bottling your own whisky. If you want to stock a whisky bar then you could try contacting Gordon & McPhail perhaps, as they can supply mIxed cases of whisky. There may be a better way to stock a whisky bar though, I'm no expert.

Good luck, sounds fun!

[goofy]

Thanks badger,

Some good ideas there. I think the idea would be to find a good single cask we could bottle for ourselves, a whisky bar would be something we could build up too. The one condition being it should be from a local distillery as the boss is keen on local produce. We're about halfway between Glen Garioch and Glendronach so I guess the first step is to get in touch with them and see if it is a feasible idea.

There is a lot to learn but is a fun problem

[Mariner]

I'll talk to my boss if I shouldn't do the same for our pharmaceutical production site

I think it must be quite easy to obtain a cask of Glendronach. They will probably do all the work for you and bottle it exclusively. Have fun!