OK whisky lovers, your starter for 10 points, name the distillery on the River Spey that is not considered a Speyside? If you said Dalwhinnie then congratulations. The photo and title of this entry may have been a clue huh? Dalwhinnie is actually classified as a Highland distillery due to its location (much further upstream than the traditional speyside region). Many distilleries use their tours to promote their USP (unique selling point, apologies for corporate marketing jargon) for example the tall stills of Glenmorangie, the 1608 distilling license in Bushmills, Towser the Cat at Glenturret and Dalwhinnie is no exception. The USP at Dalwhinnie are their traditional worm tub condensers. They claim they removed them once for more modern condensers but had to revert back to the traditional ones because the new make spirit changed. I have expressed my skepticism around these types of statements before so I will leave it at that. Interestingly, like other distilleries now, most of the Dalwhinnie stock is actually aged offsite. All this aside, I like Dalwhinnie and enjoyed the tour and the tasting and left with a bottle of their excellent 15 year old Distiller's Edition. If I had a complaint, it is a long way from anywhere so a coffee shop or something similar to pass the time while you wait to go on the tour wouldn't hurt.