Heading to Speyside to help judge the best new events category for the Festival, Sean Murphy headed to Glenlivet Distillery for the Smugglers One Life Livet Tour. They say you can’t predict the weather but you can definitely make the best of it. Well, that’s exactly the approach Charlie Ironside took when eight excited whisky fans arrived to try out his Smugglers One Life Livet Tour and found grey skies, rain and snow peppering the hills surrounding Glenlivet distillery. The excursion, which takes guests on a tour of the hidden Glen, immersing them in the history of the area and revealing a world of gaugers and whisky smugglers, involves two different forms of transport, three drams, one and a half castles, a bothy and one of the region’s most famous distilleries.

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