Haggis Highway: Water of Life (Clynelish) Traditional Cache

Part of the Haggis Highway trail and part of a series of events as shown below, please do not look for or log this cache before Saturday 13th October.

Thank you and happy caching from the Highland Haggi team.

To celebrate the creation of this section of the Haggis Highway events will take place on 13th and 14th October 2012.

The events are as follows:
Inverness ~ Dinner GC3PYR5 - Saturday 13th October from 17:00, 18:00 for dinner
Bridge of Brown ~ Lunch GC3PRW9 - Sunday 14th October from 12 noon ~16:00

Today, CLYNELISH DISTILLERY produces a single malt whisky from six traditional copper stills and is used extensively for blending. Clynelish 14-year-old Highland single malt whisky is also available at the distillery and selected outlets in bottles which feature the distillery symbol, a wildcat.

The original distillery at Clynelish was purpose built to serve the new farms being established on the fertile land of Sutherland's coastal strip. It was hoped that by providing a steady market for grain, farmers would no longer support the illicit distillers whose existence, according to a contemporary report, had "nursed the people in deceit and vice".
The distillery was built for £750 in 1819 by the future Duke of Sutherland to provide a ready market for the grain grown by his tenant farmers on improved coastal land.