Inverness whisky tasting at Kingsmills Hotel will bring rare drams and golf together in aid of Highland Hospice
Whisky lovers are in for a chance to support a beloved Highland palliative care charity with a dram-tastic event.
Inverness-based whisky guide Hamish Malcolm — also known as The Dram Caddy — and legendary Scottish golfer Sandy Lyle OBE will be teaming up with the Kingsmills Hotel to raise vital funds in aid of the Highland Hospice for a special tasting on Thursday, October 2.
“Whisky and golf are both deeply rooted in Highland tradition,” said Craig Ewan, Operations Director at the Kingsmills Hotel.
“We’re tremendously grateful to Hamish and Sandy for their support and thrilled to host such a unique evening in support of a cause very close to our hearts.”
Guests will be welcomed with canapés and a local beer and will enjoy cheese and charcuterie to accompany this engaging, lively tasting session which links (no pun intended) the worlds of whisky and golf.
“We will start with a couple of lighter, approachable whiskies,” says Hamish Malcolm, “one from one of the distilleries who have been at the forefront of golf in the Highlands for a number of years, and the other which has a very unique connection and provenance to the course and distillery.”
“We will then move on to two cask strength drams from independent bottlers — one which pays homage to an older style of golfing, while the other is from a nearby distillery which tends to still fly under the radar for many whisky lovers.”
The main tasting will culminate with a bottling that comes from an 'outlier' whisky distillery and region — far from the Highlands, but which does have some local connections. To toast the end of the evening one additional malt will be poured… a rare, 'wild card' bottle from the 1980s which marks a very special year in Sandy's career.
Tickets for the whisky tasting are priced at £60 per person and can be purchased here, with all proceeds going to the Highland Hospice, a long-standing charity partner of the Kingsmills — with £520,000 raised by the hotel since 2014.
The event coincides with the Kingsmills’ annual Charity Golf Day being held on Friday, October 3, which will be hosted by Moray Golf Club.
