Strathisla Distillery Home of Chivas

Strathisla Distillery Home of Chivas, Keith: Hours, Address, Strathisla Distillery Home of Chivas Reviews: 4.5/5

Strathisla Distillery Home of Chivas

Strathisla Distillery Home of Chivas
4.5
12:00 - 16:30
Monday
12:00 - 16:30
Wednesday
12:00 - 16:30
Thursday
12:00 - 16:30
Friday
12:00 - 16:30
Saturday
12:00 - 16:30
Sunday
12:00 - 16:30
About
The Home of Chivas is now open and ready to welcome you back to Strathisla Distillery. To keep you and our staff safe and well we are operating in a slightly different way: We will greet you at our Brand Home to take your temperature. Please bring your face mask to wear whilst inside and adhere to physical distancing. We are offering tastings for groups of maximum of 6 people for over 18 years old. Our shop will also be open - capacity is limited so a short wait in our courtyard may be required.
Suggested duration
1-2 hours
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Kimberley J
Bristol, UK1 contribution
Warehouse tasting
Sep 2021
We had an amazing warehouse tasting with Norman! We got to try some beautiful whisky straight from the casks in a relaxed space. Norman was very knowledgeable and approachable and the perfect host.

We have been on many distillery tours and warehouse tastings and this one was one of the best we have experienced - thank you for a great day!
Written 19 September 2021
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Thank you so much for visiting us. We are so glad that you had a wonderful experience with Norman! We hope that we can welcome you back here in the future to try even more of our delicious whisky!!
Written 22 September 2021
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franib261
London, England, United Kingdom35 contributions
Fab cellar tour
Sep 2021 • Couples
We booked on the the cellar tour at Strathisla. We had a brilliant tour with Norman, who talked us through some of the excellent whiskys on offer. We are whisky novices, so he kindly packaged some of our leftover drams up for us to enjoy later. Norman was a fab guide and very knowledgeable. The setting of the distillery is also beautiful. We had a great time and would recommend even to those who are new to whisky!
Written 11 September 2021
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Thank you for visiting us and we are glad you enjoyed the Cellar Experience! We would love to welcome you back to enjoy more of our whisky range! :)
Written 12 September 2021
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Stuart S
London, UK182 contributions
Enjoyable blending exprience and premium warehouse tasting of Chivas
Aug 2021
We did a private blending experience at Strathisla Distillery in Keith, a beautiful and historically-important distillery that has long been the home of Chivas Brothers. They have made a fun blending experience with a knowledgable guide in the newly-upgraded visitor facilities.

After that, we got to do a private premium warehouse tasting of some absolutely amazing and unique drams, none of which are available commercially, this was a real highlight. Cask strength samples of Chivas 18yo, Rare, 25yr, and Ultima were truly sublime and not available anywhere at any price!
Written 5 September 2021
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Thank you very much for visiting us and we are very glad that you enjoyed your time blending as well as the cellar experience with our very unique whiskies! We hope that if you are ever this way, that you will come again :)
Written 6 September 2021
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Jonathan P
Skipsea, UK135 contributions
Top Tasting
Aug 2021
Due to COVID-19 it was necessary to book a private tasking, which in the event was 4 people plus a very knowledgeable guide. This was an informative and entertaining hour of whiskey history, stories, tasting, blending and enjoyment with samples on the day and to take away.

Other reviews have suggested that there is no shop, which is inaccurate. The shop is well stocked, prices reasonable and staff are extremely helpful.
Written 28 August 2021
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Thank you for your lovely review and we are glad that you enjoyed your experience with us! You are right that we have rich history and plenty of stories!! We hope that you will visit again.
Written 28 August 2021
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Kevin F
Oakland, California11 contributions
Wonderful whisky tour despite COVID restrictions
Aug 2021 • Friends
We were visiting Scotland for a 40th birthday for golf and scotch. Our tour was with Norman and he absolutely showed us the full Monty of the whisky process as well as the history of the distillery. He made our trip to the highlands complete.
Written 27 August 2021
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Thank you for visiting us! We are glad you enjoyed your experience with Norman and hope you will come back to visit us again in the future! Many Happy Returns for the 40th Birthday :)
Written 28 August 2021
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Tacettin Aydinay
London, UK3 contributions
Greatest Distillery
Aug 2021
My wife and I visited Strathisla Distillery last August. This distillery is the one of the one must be visited. It has the best scene for great photos. You wouldn't like to stop taken photos in that view. And also whisky tasting in cellar is priceless. I had a chance to try the best expressions. Of course it's very important that to get experience about the one of the bestseller whisky which is Chivas. If you want to learn why Chivas is so famous, this is the place to understand the reason.
And last I would like to thank to the lovely and people who helped us. That was the one of the reason I would love to go back to visit them as soon as possible.
Written 21 August 2021
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We would be very happy to welcome you back. Thank you for visiting us and leaving a lovely review. We are glad that you had a good time and even more importantly, enjoyed the whisky!
Written 23 August 2021
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Kev
Stoke-on-Trent, UK4 contributions
Worth every penny
Aug 2021 • Friends
What a fantastic day. I did the blending visit , how much I have learned is amazing , you would never know how much hard work goes into blending whiskey Norman our tutor / guide was so knowledgeable
Written 20 August 2021
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We are so glad that you enjoyed our blending experience with us. Thank you for leaving a lovely review. We hope that we can welcome you back in the future and continue your whisky journey :)
Written 23 August 2021
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Robert W
1 contribution
Excellent
Aug 2021
My wife and I visited the distillery on a trip through Rabbies and I have to say that all the distilleries we visited were very thorough in their presentations. Hard yo pick which was the better visit as all were excellent.
Written 16 August 2021
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Hi Rob, Thank you for leaving a lovely review, I'm glad you enjoyed your experience here and hope we can welcome you back here in the future :)
Written 23 August 2021
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mikthw
Elgin, UK20 contributions
Blending Experience Awesomeness
Jun 2021 • Friends
1st class blending experience, thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing. Delivered and hosted brilliantly by James and Alice, very friendly and knowledgeable, they make the whole experience personal. Thank you so much, we’ll be back to go again 🙏🏻😊
Written 11 July 2021
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Hi Mike, It was a pleasure to have you here and we are really glad that you enjoyed yourselves. its brilliant that you would like to return and we hope to see you again soon!
Written 12 July 2021
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Tedber
Liverpool, UK948 contributions
Great experience- well worth a visit
May 2021 • Family
Can’t score this experience highly enough. We were up visiting Keith for a few days and booked into the Strathisla tasting session. Wasn’t sure I actually liked whisky that much but thought the whole experience would be interesting and different.

I was right, we had James, a young man who was very informative and humorous. I was very interested in the history of the ‘still. Due to Covid restrictions we couldn’t get a tour of the plant but this didn’t deter from the experience in any way.
The group was limited to 6 and the table divided so as to be as Covid safe as we could possibly be.

We were given five different whiskies to sample of different ages and strengths and asked to rate them. I don’t blended whisky (which is all I had tried before) and some of the samples weren’t to my taste but 2 of the 5 I found I did like. I added a small amount of water to mine and was assured this is perfectly acceptable.

Don’t worry if you are driving either because they will give you the sample drams to take away.

When we came away we were given 6 Strathisla whisky glasses in a box and a complementary miniature bottle. Happy days 😂.

Definitely recommend booking this.
Written 24 June 2021
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Thank you very much for coming to visit us and we are so happy that you enjoyed your experience and even manged to find some whiskies that you like!!! We hope you will visit us again in the future. Kind regards Strathisla Team
Written 26 June 2021
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