🗺️ NC500 Attractions

Old Pulteney Distillery in Wick holds a special place in Scottish whisky — it is the most northerly mainland distillery and bills itself as "The Maritime Malt", a reference to the salt-spray, briny, sea air character that permeates its whisky. Founded in 1826 in the planned fishing town of Pulteneytown (now part of Wick), the distillery uses famously unusual sti…

Wolfburn Distillery on the outskirts of Thurso is the northernmost distillery on the Scottish mainland — a craft operation founded in 2013 on the site of a distillery that operated in the 1820s. Wolfburn is a small independent operation producing whisky in tiny batches, which means every bottle is genuinely limite…

Dunnet Bay Distillers, producers of the award-winning Rock Rose Gin, sit near Dunnet Head — the true most northerly point of mainland Britain — in the dramatic Caithness landscape. Founded in 2014 by Martin and Claire Murray, the distillery uses water drawn from a spring on the Dunnet Head estate and…

North Point Distillery at John o'Groats is Scotland's northernmost rum distillery — and one of very few rum distilleries in the country at all. Situated right at the iconic northeastern tip of mainland Britain, it produces the Pentland Firth Rum range using import…

8 Doors Distillery is one of the newer craft spirits operations on the NC500, established in Wick in 2020 and producing whisky, gin and vodka. The name references the eight doors of a traditional Caithness flagstone cottage — a nod to local vernacular architect…

Stannergill Distillery is a small craft gin producer based in Thurso, adding to the growing cluster of artisan spirits operations in Caithness. Using locally sourced botanicals including heather, bog myrtle and coastal plants from the Caithness landscape, Stannerg…