Holyrood Distillery: Whisky and Gin Tour
4.8
535 Ratings
Edinburgh

Embark on a guided tour of Holyrood Distillery and delve into the fascinating world of gin and whisky production. Discover Edinburgh’s brewing and distilling heritage while enjoying spirit samples and exploring our innovative facilities.

Duration: 1 hour
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Holyrood Distillery - Holyrood Distillery is an exciting new attraction and single malt whisky distillery in the heart of Edinburgh. It includes a guided experiential tour, a gin distillery, a whisky distillery, a tasting bar and shop.
What's Included
  • Alcoholic beverages
Additional Information

Join us for our classic tour - the perfect introduction to Holyrood Distillery!
Sip on a seasonal cocktail as your guide welcomes you to the distillery. Let us introduce you to our story as we put Edinburgh back onto the whisky map as the city’s first single malt distillery for over a hundred years.
Alongside a sample of our classic expression, learn…

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Location
Holyrood Distillery
Saint Leonard's Lane
Please check in for your tour at the Distillery Shop
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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1991sabrinad
Jan 23, 2026
Holyrood Distillery - Beautiful visit to Holyrood Distillery. It is a young but really super interesting distillery, capable of transmitting passion and innovation from the first moment. The tour was clear and engaging Our guide Lloyd was super prepared, kind and nice: he made the whole experience very fun, full of interesting facts and explanations, accompanied by great tastings. You can clearly perceive its competence and the desire to make everyone appreciate the world of distillation. Although I am not a whisky lover, I really enjoyed the visit and the approach of the distillery. I am convinced that such interesting and young projects are very successful. Experience absolutely recommended during a stay in Edinburgh.
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Jerome_t
Dec 30, 2025
Mmmmmmm whisky - Tour of local whisky distillery. Very informative nice couple of tasters. Also do gin, Result! Lovely bar, nice shop. Well worth the visit
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Tyler_b
Dec 14, 2025
Totally Worth i! - Super informative and delightful atmosphere. Drinks were pretty great too. Our tour guide was brilliant and fun.
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Chhoti_khajuria
Dec 13, 2025
Holyrood distillery tour - The distillery tour with Diego was fantastic. He had some interesting stories about local whisky and gin making. A must visit if you’re interested in the distillery process
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Amandalg6553qr
Dec 11, 2025
Fabulous tour - great guide - Taken round by Michelin - tour was very informative- excellent guide - brilliant experience Highly recommend this tour
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Q2228nmpeterc
Dec 9, 2025
Fun and Informative Distillery tour - Great visit to a smaller and newer distillery in the area. Courtney gave a fun and informative tour. Different tastings of scotch and gin, both very good.
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N4591fnanjah
Dec 7, 2025
Super nice tour of a very special still - Super interesting tour with a very nice tour guide Diego. Great explains what whisky is all about, very vivid and very personal!
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Alejandro_c
Dec 3, 2025
Excellent experience. - It´s an excellent experience to learn about this distillery products and the process to make it, it´s also easy to arrive.
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Paul
Nov 28, 2025
Fantastic Distollery Tour - Diego was our tour guide and he was fantastic, very knowledgeable and he explained the process of Gin and Whisky from start to finish. The drams we were given were very good but Gin is not my tipple but the single malt whisky was great. Overall it was great, Diego was superb, very well done.
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Will
Jan 21, 2026
Nice visit and facility, pleasant staff - Tucked back in the city, in an old railway station building is the charming Holyrood Distillery. For a relatively new distillery, it feels older in a good way. Modern in operation, while maintaining a vintage feel. The shop area is nice, as is the bar area upstairs, with plenty of options (including sans alcohol), with exceptionally helpful staff in both. The tour was plesant; it's not a large place, so plenty of stopping to talk and taste. The final tasting dipped the review off 5 stars for me. It's nice to have water served to drink between samples and to also have a jug and droppers to add a drop or two of water with some of the drams. They were also out of one of the posted drams....I get that happens. Overall a good experience. I'd say parking is challenging in the area, but that would be an understatement. We walked the mile from out hotel, which was fine. Also avoided driver drams this way.
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