The Tomatin Distillery Visitor Centre Reviews Summary

Guides

Pros:

• "Kudos to Gavin!! Super knowledgeable and went slow enough and waited for our questions."
• "Went on a guided tour of the distillery with our guide Rosemary who was very knowledgeable and friendly."
• "Sophie was an absolutely fantastic guide who had so much knowledge on the processes and answered all the questions in detail."
• "Fiona our guide was amazing, funny, professional and just an all around perfect presenter!"
• "Our guide, Scott McLennan, providing a superb journey throughout the distillery with facts and fun by the bucket load."
• "Hannah Bell was an amazing tour guide."
• "We had a very informative tour with Issie, who was a great guide with great humour."

Cons:

• "Find yourself another distillery to visit. This one is particularly unappealing and the tour guide, an old lady, was not very knowledgeable besides the official narrative."
• "Only disappointment was to discover next day there was money off voucher for going on tour that none of my group were offered."
• "Marven, the receptionist, was extremely rude and unprofessional when we tried to book a tour there."
• "The two ladies on the tills let the experience down, keen to take your money and then dismissed you."
• "The tour itself started a bit late and seemed a bit chaotic behind the scenes."

Tour Experience

Pros:

• "Tomatin itself was lovely to drive through with 3 interesting bridges, the wooden one was particularly interesting!"
• "Overall well worth a visit."
• "Tomatin Distillery is an absolute must for anyone who is a whiskey enthusiast."
• "We enjoyed the Legacy tour and appreciated the ease with which we were able to book it over the phone, but we also felt the tour was too basic."
• "Great tour, with some unusual opportunities, including getting inside a real Mash tun."
• "The tour was awesome and Colin is a great guide, happy to show us around and clarify all doubts you may have about the distillery or the whisky making process."
• "The legacy tour was brilliant and very well priced."

Cons:

• "How can that work. We left without purchase."
• "We were unable to go on tour because they were full that day."
• "Unable to do a full tour as only on specific days."
• "The tour is pretty basic and their whiskeys taste very generic."

Tasting & Products

Pros:

• "You can sample all kinds of their spirits and bottle your own whiskey."
• "Drivers will appreciate the fact you can take home some whisky to try."
• "We got the taste across the core range: Legacy, 12, Cask Strength, 14 port wood, 18 and Cu Bocan."
• "Tasting afterwards was excellent and really enjoyed several of the drams."
• "The little village and gift shop are awesome - loved seeing local art from repurposed oak barrels."
• "One a the few distilleries still offering tastings during this virus madness!"
• "At the end we sampled 3 very different whisky types. A young blend, the 12 year and the smoky."

Cons:

• "Got caught up in it and bought what was supposed to be a 125th anniversary edition 695 pound bottle of scotch as an investment... I felt sick to the stomach that I had been ripped off."
• "However, we bought a bottle of Tomatin 18 year old for £115 at the visitor/gift centre thinking we were getting it for a good price, only to later find it in Inverness at a bottle shop for £90!"