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One million litres of water a day is taken from the River Spey for the cooling down condensers and is then recycled back into the River Spey. Kat explained to us all about the water supply to the distillery and how 150,000 litres of water go through the distillery each day in the making of the whisky. To find out more about the history please go to The Macallan "the story" section. The history of The Macallan dates back to 1700 when Easter Elchies House, which lies in the middle of The Macallan estate, was built. As this is a working distillery on the way down the road a truck passed us with a delivery of the latest barley crop to be used in the production of their malt whisky.Īfter a three minute walk down the road we went up around 15 stairs to a glass door where Kat (one of the tour guides) gave us an introduction to the facilities around The Macallan and the history surrounding this stunning distillery. The beginning of the tour took us downhill, along a road towards the main producing part of the distillery. There are nine tour guides in total at The Macallan, two of whom are part time, who are on hand to show whisky lovers from across the world around the facilities. We had two tour guides who were going to show the Planet Whiskies team around the ins and outs of The Macallan and we could not wait to see what was behind the warehouse doors and the producing building of one of Scotland's most famous malt whisky brands. This tour was called The Six Pillars Tour.
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Another five minutes passed and we were called to the front desk as we were about to start the exciting tour around the distillery and finally see the process of making The Macallan Single Malt.
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We had a discussion about which malts may be later introduced in the whisky tasting and also which malts we hoped would be included. After the introductions we walked around the whisky shop taking photos of the different kinds of The Macallan malts on offer, and as you can imagine the selection was tremendous. On arrival at the distillery we went straight to the Macallan shop where we introduced ourselves as Planet Whiskies and were given a special welcome by The Macallan team. The first distillery of the day was The Macallan Distillery and all concerned were so excited about the fact that we were visiting this famous Speyside distillery today and having a private tour around the facilities, and of course the whisky tasting of The Macallan malts after the tour. Today was the day we were going to see some of the finest distilleries in the Speyside region and there was a bounce in our steps in anticipation of these visits. On Saturday April 12th the Planet Whiskies team woke up in Grantown-on-Spey after a great sleep in the Speyside Town. Planet Whiskies Tour of The Macallan Distillery | The Six Pillars Tour | April, 2014 Planet Whiskies Tour Around The Macallan Distillery