The Tomatin Distillery Co Ltd Review

Well worth the value. Super knowledgeable tour guide. Excellent tasty whisky.

Fiona led us on an excellent Legacy Tour that was one of the highlights of our trip. We highly recommend it! Great whisky, too!

Fantastic tour. The guide was excellent, and great whisky. High recommend visiting

Great visit just for both of us. Our guide Fiona kindly guided us into the distillery. Note that they are very responsible, the driver can not participate in the tasting end of visit but he leaves with a small bottle of Legacy.

Closed due to covid 19 when we visited Whisky Fantastic

Friendly distillery, with some really great malts on offer.

Friendly and well explained tours.
Open in winter!!
And on weekends!!
Very nice shop too.

Great tour and tasting! I highly recommand a visit to this distillery wich cherishes every worker the. Nicole the guide relly makes you under stabd what whisky is really about!

Distillery was well managed with goof staff the whiskey tasting tour was also good they had different types of whiskey some were 8 yrs old some were 12 yrs Should go for it once

Whisky? what's not to like? The best of all the distillery tours we have been on so far...

Difficult to reach with public transports, but interesting guided tour.

Good tastings straight from the casks. 5 different casks to bottle your own. Very friendly staff.

Very cool Tour through the internal destillery, and 3 dif. Wiskey for tastings...nice visit!!

Excellent tour, the guide was very knowledgeable and very friendly.

Hedy was our guide for the tour, she is a great guide for this excellent and detailled tour! You get to see more than other distillery!

Had a wonderful tour & tasting here at the beginning of July. Fiona was our guide and by the end of the visit she felt like an old friend, such was her warmth, kindness and friendliness. But, being Irish, she certainly has a grand sense of humour as well, so it was highly entertaining to listen to her banter with the lads in the distillery. And, in addition to that, she seems to know just about everything going on in and around the place, so we were very well informed about the distillery's workings. The 6 dram tasting at the end was a joy. It seems to me, from the Legacy onwards and upwards, Tomatin is now producing honest, faultless malts that are just such great value you'd be mad to overlook them. The 18 offers such incredible bang for your buck and just picked up a double gold again in San Francisco a couple of months back. Very highly recommended!

Great tour. Very helpful and nice team at the visitor centre. One of the few distilleries that could hold tours currently.

Amazing staff and whisky. Very welcoming and clearly passionate about what they are doing.

Great tour (Taste of Tomatin) our host, David very knowledgeable and friendly. Thank you.

Didn't do the tour, but we stopped in to purchase some whiskey and the prices were reasonable (certainly cheaper than in Canada!)

Great experience for a great Scotch Whiskey. Reasonable price and excellent information. While foreign owned, the distillery is very independent and the work is still very handons.

Very large distillery, more of an industrial company compared to other whiskey distilleries. Nice shop where you can fill a bottle from several barrels.

Lovely place. Tour guide great. The two ladies on the tills let the experience down, keen to take your money and then dismissed you, I even had my card just skid across the counter to me followed by my receipt and then nothing. Very poor!

The tour was awsome. Very knowledgeable guide and nicr whsky

Was a nice tour but still room for more friendliness

This was a GREAT tour. We had a very knowledgeable guide and the tasting afterwards was fun and insightful.

We went on the basic tour and was brilliant. The guide was so good and explained everything so well and fitted in so much. Tasted 3 whiskeys at the end. I'm a brewer and was really impressed with all his process explanations. Highly recommend!

Great tasting, I particularly recommend the Cu Bocan. Very friendly and welcoming staff.

Awesome tour! Very detailed and easy to follow. Our guide was Fiona, she was super friendly, had a huuuge knowledge of what she was telling on the tour. I can HIGHTLY recommend this tour to anyone who wants to know about whisky and how it's beeing produced. Lovely distillery, up the mountains, friendly staff and informative tours. Thanks a lot Fiona for having us.

Great guided tour, very knowledgeable young guide. Some steps and stairs may make this difficult for less abled bodied.

Very nice visit
Super friendly staff

Absolutely brilliant tour even with all the restrictions Fiona was fantastic made the tour

Highly recommended, very ambles.
Amazing Wisky

Nice place bought a cask strength malt from here ,this distillery was new to us so we had to try it's water of life ! So I wish all at Tomatin and there visiters good health

Interesting visit to the distillery and the store. It was very good, but I imagine that like any other, there are many in Scotland.

Definitely recommend. Visited some distilleries while in the Scottish Highlands, but here we got the best tour (even if we arrived late almost at closing time), a quick tasting and even some suggestions about what to do in Inverness and surroundings. Big thumbs up for Tomatin distillery and its team, especially for Charlie who gave us the tour.

Very Nice service informative guide. Exellent wisky. Recomend a visit

Old ugly building.
But super interesting and good tour
Really recommended
Last is a 44 year old whiskey.
Very expensive so let it stand

the still is incredibly large and the tour is very interesting. on my excursion it was already a huge highlight Ackermann everything explained nicely from start to finish, above all you can also use the Frank Etelsen as well as very often afterwards in this tour there is also a tasting with us employees whether this always happens I can unfortunately not to provide information because the shop is very big only the only defects I had the varnish really only in taste Daniela Whiskey personally had not tasted but from many statements from the group they Cup Whiskey very digestible

Great tour around the distillery with our extremely good guide, Charlie!

Distillery tour was fantastic. Hedy our guide was brilliant ,and the whisky was lovely,highly recommended.

A proud independent distillery. The tour was really interesting and our guide Scott was extremely knowledgeable having done most of the jobs in the distillery himself.

The tasting room was the biggest highlight of our visit the walls of the entire room were lined floor to ceiling with hundreds of samples of single malt.

Plenty of character, very professional staff, worth visiting

The second highest distillery in Scotland. Wheelchair accessible with exellent and knowledgeable guides taking you round. Shop to buy gifts and the whisky which can be tasted as part of the entrance fee

Excellent, well worth a visit. Tour guide's are very informative and enthusiastic. Legacy is amazing

Our young guide was knowledgeable and genuinely lived his job. Thanks Charlie for a great tour... wish we could have sampled more, but we were cycling, and had a ways to go!

Unfortunately we didn't make it on time for the tour but members of the staff were quick to offer us a viewing of a video on how the distillery works despite being minutes away from closing. Great customer care!

Walk in the store, there are free tastings at the bar.

We've been on a weeklong whisky distillery tour throughout Scotland and we can say this is hands down the best distillery tour we have been on. Hedy was the most amazing guide any whisky lover could wish for. Her tour was so much fun, informative and we also got to know some parts of the whisky distillery we never saw on any tour before or after. The distillery itself is not as touristy or flashy as others but nonetheless it would have been a shame if we didn't visit it. The whisky itself is delicious as well but that is is a subjective viewpoint. Keep up your good work!

Really informative and helpful staff. Enjoyed sampling at the end. Good option to try more exclusive whiskies

Was a very nice tour, got a lot of information and was able to see a lot. Price is very good in relation to what you get!

If there is a distellerie to visit, this is it!
Excellent welcome, complete tour of the distellerie with clear and precise explanations.
During the month of August the distillation works which is really very interesting.
In addition, it is the only distellerie offering a fermentation tank cut laterally which allows you to enter it!
Price more than correct (8 ) for a full hour tour, with final tasting of 3 whiskey or a small bottle to take away for drivers.
Excellent whiskey especially Cu Bocan which is out of the ordinary and which I recommend

Thanks again for the welcome :)

It was a nice tour, we got to see more than usual, unfortunately the young lady couldn't answer all of our questions. The shop itself is very small, but there were 5 different whiskeys to fill yourself, I thought it was very cool, mostly there was only one

Absolutely a wonderful experience!!! Our tour guide, David, was the best. Very knowlegable and a fun guy on tour. Highly recommend!!!

Family friendly even for babies that are carried.


At he end we sampled 3 very different whisky types. A young blend, the 12 year and the smoky. From an inexperienced whisky taster I learned a lot.

We finished with buying our own "bottle your own" where I was able to try 3 more samples. We walked away with a great family experience with our 4 month old and a nice bottle of scotch!

Great experience, Ken was an awsome good tour guide, made it a fun and interestind time, with jokes and insight.
Learned a lot and all my questions were answered 120%.
Ken really goes the extra mile.
And the distillery is beautiful, with history. And their whisky is very nice, went and raided the shop after as you do.

This was by far the best distillery tour we had during our holiday in Scotland (we visited 3). Very informativea and complete. High quality products, actually fell in love with the 14 year port barrel.

We had an interesting and informative tour, our guide and all the staff were friendly and knowledgeable. Our guide did a particularly good job engaging with all of the kids on our tour (six boys!) and I think that made it more enjoyable for everyone.

Really great whiskey tour - 90min long at regular times 7 days a week all year. Friendly knowledgeable guide

The atmosphere of the staff was great. The tour was really good and in-depth as well. over all was a great experience and if your in the local area.I recommend taking the tour and coming into the visitors center

Very enjoyable and interesting visit. Well worth the short distance from the A9.

Special experience. Good guidance with a young and kind guide.

Very personal and well-founded leadership. No hurry and lots of new insights into the distillery. Highly recommended. With three drums also a price benefit.

I got bored a lot, I find it little stimulating to visit a distillery, perhaps it is more personal than the quality of the site.

Barbara was a fantastic tour guide. We were greeted immediately by warm and friendly staff at the Tomatin Distillery. Such an interesting tour and tasting in the Highlands. We learned so much about Scotch whisky and this small company. It really is a way of life.

The little village and gift shop are awesome - loved seeing local art from repurposed oak barrels - very cool.

One of the best whisky tours and tastings in the Highlands with a great staff! Thanks

Visited in December so was during the quiet season but this meant we had our own private tour and tasting, and ended up buying 3 bottles too

oooh The whisky tours we are doing is amazeballs This whisky tasting at Tomatin Distillery was epic
Please Sir can I have some more

Friendly welcome. Possibility to taste all the whyskies of the house against payment. Tour of the facilities a little disappointing, all machines were stopped on the day of our visit.

We didn t do the tour, we just stopped for some whiskey tasting. Was a first time tasting any Tomatin whiskey and was really good. We ended up buying a bottle and a glass! Great customer service too!

Huge facility with many wonderful whiskies to sample.

A wonderful visit and a great tour. Fiona was an amazing guide, and the whisky tasting was phenomenal.

Absolutly worth a visit.

Undertaking the descent already to Edinburgh, it is interesting to make a quick stop at the Whiskey distillery in Tomatin. I give it 5 stars because if you do not want to spend money at the entrance to the tour through the distillery they offer you a small explanation through a video in the language you want; After finishing the video they offer you a little explanation and tasting of one of their whiskeys. They have a store, where a perfect detail for someone who likes whiskey can be a small bottle of 50 cl, which vary the price according to the kind of whiskey you want to take with you. You can buy a small bottle from 5 pounds.

Was at the Christmas Fair today. A nice little happening with many stalls with food and sweets and specialities from the region. Tour was very busy because free. But still an indepth experience and very personal.

We did the Taste of Tomatin tour with Fiona as our guide. Fiona was an excellent guide and gave us plenty of time to take photos throughout the tour. We got the taste across the core range: Legacy, 12, Cask Strength, 14 port wood, 18 and Cu Bocan. You have the option to take the Tasters away with you if you prefer, which is good for those driving etc.

After the Tour they have a very nice shop and 6 Distillery Exclusive single cask whiskys available. We ended up of a bottle of the Oloroso which is fantastic. Would Highly recommend the Tour, even for those that don't drink Whisky.