A private tour combining Tantallon Castle, a real artisan gin distillery, and a genuine private whisky flight.
A private tour for your group only, to Tantallon Castle, a real artisan distillery with private gin tasting, North Berwick, and a genuine private whisky flight.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Tantallon Castle, a genuine artisan distillery with a private gin tasting, North Berwick, and a real private whisky flight.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Edinburgh.
A real, dramatic coastal ruin.
Genuine private gin tasting.
Genuine tasting, just for your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, to Tantallon Castle, a real artisan distillery with private gin tasting, North Berwick, and a genuine private whisky flight. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Tantallon Castle, a genuine artisan distillery with a private gin tasting, North Berwick, and a real private whisky flight.
Tantallon Castle is a real 14th-century stronghold, built around the 1350s by William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, and held for roughly 300 years by the 'Red Douglases', Earls of Angus. It withstood two royal sieges — James IV's forces attacked with crossbows and early cannon in 1491, and James V besieged his own stepfather there for 20 days in 1528 without success — before finally falling to Oliver Cromwell's artillery in 1651, which left the castle's towers in the ruined state they remain in today.
North Berwick, the tour's coastal stop, is a genuine seaside town overlooked by North Berwick Law, a volcanic hill that's been used as a lookout point since at least the Napoleonic Wars. This stretch of East Lothian coastline has long supported both fishing and farming communities, and its position on the Firth of Forth gives the whole route real, uninterrupted sea views that the standard Highlands day trip simply doesn't pass through.
Scotch whisky itself has to legally meet real, specific rules to carry the name — it must be distilled in Scotland from water and malted barley, matured in oak casks for a minimum of three years, and bottled at no less than 40% alcohol by volume. The private gin tasting and whisky flight on this tour let you taste the results of that process directly, rather than just hearing about how they're made.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.