Venture off the beaten track and discover a new whisky tasting experience in Orkney. Scapa Distillery's new tasting room, the Noust, offers a unique and unforgettable adventure. 🥃 Scotland whisky
The distilleries best whiskies are only available in person.Scapa’s range is sold online in the UK, with some rare bottles are only available at the distillery, including the Scapa Vintage Collection 41-Year-Old , priced at roughly $15,500, and 42-Year-Old , about $18,650. U.S. buyers in some states can buy certain Scapa malts on Those making the pilgrimage to Scapa should make reservations at , a new powerhouse of a restaurant in the small town of Stromness.
Most visitors to Orkney come for the 5,000-year-old burial mounds and standing stones that dot the pale-green fields, notably the vast, eerie Ring of Brodgar and Stones of Stenness. A 20-year-old dig at a large Neolithic settlement, the Ness of Brodgar, will close next year; visitors can tour the site for the last time this summer.
Other must-see Orcadian sights are the 12th-century St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall—home to a major annual festival of music and literature—Canada View—a World War Two cliff-top machine-gun battery where the Atlantic pounds towering sea-stacks and the Italian Chapel, a stunningly ornate Catholic church created out of steel huts by Italian prisoners of war.
Orkney has no five-star hotels—yet. But on the mainland, one hour away by ferry, stands King Charles’ personal Scottish retreat, the 16th-century , which offers simple B&B or self-catering rooms. The magnificently luxurious Gleneagles in Perthshire and the Fife Arms in the Cairngorms are a short hop by helicopter or private jet.
Orkney is refreshingly free of cliché; you will not find tartan, clans, bagpipes, or caber-tossing. What it offers is raw nature, a portal into deep history, a confident food and arts scene, and perhaps the most magnificent whisky tasting experience in the country.
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