Wednesday 12 October 2022

Islay - Branded Glencairns

As well as distillery tours, warehouse tastings, meetings friends old and new and buying whisky there's one more thing you need to do on a whisky road trip...


Buy branded @GlencairnGlass glasses!

At each of the distilleries we visited I bought or tried to buy a branded Glencairn, you can never have enough glassware!

If you visit Glencairn's website a single standard glass is £7, shop around and buy 6 you can get them for around £6. We paid £5.50 when buying our Blind tasting Consortium #BlindDrams branded ones in bulk. I'm sure the distilleries buy many more and get a much better price but in the Visitor's Centres the prices varied a lot.

Ardbeg told me they don't sell them, Diageo's Caol Ila and Lagavulin were the most expensive at £8 each (I guess they need to pay for their Johnnie Walker upgrade!), Bruichladdich's the cheapest at £5. 

Ardnahoe £6

Bowmore £5.50

Bruichladdich £5

Bunnahabhain £6.50

Caol Ila £8

Kilchoman £5.50


Lagavulin £8

Laphroaig £6



And if you don't like Glencairns you could always buy a tin mug!

Bunnahabhain £6.50

Read more about the planning for our trip here!

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