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The $85,000 Scotch Whisky Gift Experience

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If Jared Paul Stern's $2 Million Scotch Whisky Gift Experience (with Glenfiddich) was a little too rich for your blood, an $85,000 experience with The Dalmore might be just right for you.

We've covered various Dalmore bottles with prices as high as $58,000 over the years, as well as a tasting led by the colorful third generation Master Distiller Richard Paterson (above). With the once-in-a-lifetime Dalmore Experience package, you can combine all that -- taste the best bottles, spend a day with Richard and even get your hands on a custom-blended bottle of The Whisky Dalmore.

The $85,000 price tag gets you first class transportation (including airfare) to the Scottish Highlands, a city and country tour, four nights in a five-star hotel, a private barrel tasting of resting casks, a day of falconry with Richard Paterson, and a bespoke bottle of scotch whisky hand-created for you by Richard himself -- after he gets to know you, you personality and your preferences. The bottle will arrive in a handmade case a few weeks after you return to real life.

This extravagant package is so exclusive, it's only available for those in-the-know. Comment below and indicate your interest if would like to be contacted by a representative (or contact Annie.Scott-at-weblogsinc.com), and the Luxist team will pass along your information. You're welcome.

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Whisky Tourism On The Rise In Scotland

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Wine tourism is big business around the world but for Scotland it's all about the whisky. The Scotsman has figures from Scotlandwhisky, the national Whisky tourism organization which show that over one million tourists visited distilleries last year and brought in more than £25 million in revenue. The number of tourists went up 12 percent last year. Scotlandwhisky offers a newsletter and a downloadable PDF with a map of Scotland's distilleries as well as information on hotels and guided tours.

In recent years distilleries have taken a cue from the wine tourism industry offering conference facilities, restaurants and bars to make their visitor centers more appealing. Today people are interested not just in tasting whisky but in learning how it is produced. Of course it also doesn't hurt that some distilleries are in beautifully scenic countryside. Also just as in a wine tour of the Napa Valley, the types of experiences differ with both larger more commercial venues and smaller family-owned enterprises showing their wares.

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