Posts for March, 2025

Gather with your friends and family this Easter, feel loved and cherished, whilst eating delicious food.
Gluten free, Dairy free and vegetarian options available.
Traditional Sunday Roast served from 12pm-3pm
Book online at www.rowantreehotel.com or call to book 01479810207

We are very excited to welcome back Will Hamer of Wild Kabn Kitchen for the first instalment of our 2025 supper club series. Will’s unique and wonderful open fire style of cooking allows you to explore the connection between food, fire and nature in the beautiful surroundings of the ancient pine forest here at The Dell. They will be offering up a beautifully curated 5 course meal cooked over the fire which celebrates local Scottish produce, in particular venison from right here in the Abernethy forest. The bar will be run by ourselves with a wide selection of soft drink, beers, wines and a cocktail or two for good measure. For more information and to book a place, please do get in touch

We invite you to join us for a celebration of Ballindalloch Distillery, Whisky and Estate, an unmissable afternoon of Whisky, food, music and fun. Think Festival within a Festival!

Your ticket includes use of a free shuttle bus service running from Elgin, Rothes, Craigellachie and Aberlour for those who want to fully enjoy everything we have to offer at our Ballindalloch Estate BBQ.

Come and explore our beautiful Single Estate Distillery and discover what makes us unique in Speyside: our traditional manual production process and the circular economy within the Estate of our natural resources and by-products. From the very outset, the production of our Whisky was always destined to be “hands on”. With a clear commitment to tradition, the Single Estate nature of our process allows us to control every aspect of Whisky making. From the barley we grow at our Home Farm to the draff fed back to cattle across the Estate, we craft our Whisky in a way that generations past would have recognised.

Your ticket includes access to the Distillery production area, where you can discuss Whisky making with our highly skilled production team. You will be joining us for an afternoon of Ballindalloch Single Malt Whisky drams, food from our Ballindalloch BBQ featuring Aberdeen Angus meat, the breed closely associated with Ballindalloch (a delicious vegan option will be available too), all catered by Calum’s Kitchen.

As a family owned and working estate, the Macpherson-Grants invite you to experience many aspects of estate life through various fun activities. We will have archery, golf challenges, and live music. Also, as Chieftain of the Aberlour Highland Games, current Laird, Guy Macpherson-Grant is looking forward to watching you join in some caber tossing and other Games sports. With so much to see & do, we guarantee you a great afternoon at Ballindalloch.

You can use your ticket to secure a discount in our shop, with the opportunity to purchase our exclusive Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival bottling!

Hop over to Highland Wildlife Park for a special pastry breakfast this Easter weekend with arts, crafts and activities for all the family to enjoy. Peter Rabbit™ will also be making an appearance for families to meet.

Prices

Adult £30
Child £25
Adult member: £20
Child member: £15
Under 3: £5
Under 3 (with activities and Pastries): £15

Tickets include entry to Highland Wildlife Park for the day.

For further information please contact events@rzss.org.uk.

The 5th Braemar Mountain Festival returns from the Thursday 5th March – Sunday 9th March 2025.
4 days and over 40 events to choose from!
The festival kicks off with a torchlight procession following the Braemar pipe band to the iconic Games Centre Pavilion for a night of food, drink and music.
From Friday our programme of guided walks, ski, winter skills, mountain bike, wild swimming and trail running sessions commence across the weekend.
Accompanying the activity sessions are a range of workshops which include navigation, photography, star gazing and first aid.
Across the weekend we have a line up of amazing speakers covering a wide range of subjects. Look out for the book signings at some of the talks. Special mention goes to our headline mountaineering speakers – Anna Wells and Adri Brownlee. Adri is a 23year old woman who has climbed all fourteen 8000m peaks in the Himalayas. Only the second Brit to achieve this and the youngest female! Anna is an inspirational mountaineer who completed a winter round of the Munro’s last year.
Not forgetting our Saturday night ceilidh with live music from the Blaeberries and our Best of Kendal film night which wraps up the Festival on the Sunday evening.

💐Treat your Mum this Mother’s day to an Afternoon Tea @ the Rothesay Rooms Sunday 30th March 💐

Reservations essential and spaces are limited, so reserve your table now!

To book, call us on 013397 53816 or drop us an email rothesayroomsbookings@baxterstorey.com or pop in, Wednesday – Sunday 10am – 4pm ⏰📧📞

Not able to make the Sunday? Our Afternoon Teas are served every Wednesday to Sunday 🌸 from 12pm – 2.30pm.

Or for the perfect gift, Vouchers are also available 💐

Annual village gathering of Clubs and groups within Nethy Bridge, promoting ‘what’s on’ throughout the year. Together with village crafts people showcasing their wares there will be a spit roast, food stalls and tea tent with home baking, musicians, children’s events and activities

Celebrate with us and enjoy something delicious from our special Pancake Day Menu.

Join us this Mother’s Day for a delicious lunch in the Keiller Brasserie. Please email or call to reserve a table or to receive a copy of our special menu.

As part of the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival, join us for a complimentary in-store tasting of Angels’ Nectar Scotch Whisky at the Rothiemurchus Farm Shop.

Inspired by the Angels’ share, the traditional name given to the whisky los to evaporation during maturation, Angels’ Nectar showcase contrasting styles of Scotch Whisky for you to enjoy.

The line up for the tasting will include the Angels’ Nectar Oloroso Sherry Cask Edition, our single malt matured for the duration in former oloroso sherry casks and bottled at 46%, and the Angels’ Nectar Cairngorms 4th Edition, our Speyside single cask bottled in partnership with the Cairngorms Trust to support environmental and community projects in the Cairngorms.