A round up of this month’s whisky news, and a snifter at the new blend of Arran, Jura, and Islay malts to mark National Oyster Day Scotch Whisky tourism is seeing record numbers of visitors, with 1.9 million visits to distilleries last year, new figures have revealed.
The annual survey compiled by the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) also shows spending at visitor centres was up by 15.6 per cent to £60.9m, with the highest number of visitors coming from Germany and the USA, followed by India, China and Japan.