“You know it’s a good one when it warms you down to your toes,” my driver says as we snake back to Inverness airport after an invigorating stay at Links House in the Scottish Highlands. “Indeed, you do,” I reply, still tingling from wisps of a 1984 Talisker. I had just spent a faultless few days as a private client of Diageo, in what might be one of the world’s most exceptional whisky experiences.
Let’s rewind: an adventure to discover modern living rarity and a Scotland unseen to many had begun in Edinburgh, where Diageo, drawing on their expertise in the spirits business, have made a foray into city hospitality with the opening of Johnnie Walker Princes Street, the whisky experience space. I stayed at Gleneagles Townhouse, impeccably
