Scapa Distillery Tour Report[photos]kirkwall-Orkney Islands
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We arrived at Stromness in the Orkney Islands and visited two distilleries in the town of Kirkwall in one day.
We went to Highland Park in the morning, and Scapa Distillery in the afternoon.
Set in a place rich in nature, its tasting room was supremely stylish.
Here’s a look at our visit.
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Features of the Distillery
Founded in 1885, with two pot stills in total.
Scapa means “boat,” and there’s a legend that long ago, when a princess was about to be sacrificed to a sea monster, a young man set out in a small boat loaded with peat, leapt into the monster’s mouth, burned the peat, and slew it.
The monster’s teeth are said to have become the Orkney Islands.
The flavor is pineapple and vanilla. A visitor center opened in 2015.
Location / Access
Same as for Highland Park, but from Stromness — the gateway to the Orkney Islands — it’s about 30 minutes to central Kirkwall.
It was quite a distance for us, but we went from Highland Park to central Kirkwall, had a meal, and then walked even further to Scapa Distillery from there.
I can’t recommend it to anyone who’s not confident in their stamina, but we walked and walked along an empty country road, taking in the beautiful scenery.
There are probably only a few, but there are buses too.
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The Distillery’s Exterior
The entrance was a little hard to find, and we walked quite a way to get to it.
This is a view that really moved us. You can see it during the tour.
The Tour We Joined
We don’t have photos of the tour itself, but we do have one of the cask warehouse.
It was a tasting in a lovely space, looking out over the beautiful sea views of the Orkney Islands.
Since it was just the two of us, we could take our time savoring it.
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The Shop
The shop isn’t very big, but they let us sit and relax until it was time.
Summary
The guide apparently loved the Orkney Islands so much that she moved here from another area.
We too could feel a little of that charm ourselves.
If you’re lucky, you can see the aurora in winter, and I imagine summer must be even more pleasant.