Tasting

ELC Festival Fringe Finale

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Eric Liddell Community
22nd Aug 2025

Come along to participate in a wine tasting and quiz! The event will include: a welcoming drink, a tasting of 6 wines with the quiz and tasty snacks as an accompaniment.

Single Malt Sessions

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Holyrood Distillery
4th - 25th Aug 2025

Join us for an evening of whisky, storytelling and live music for our Fringe event – the Single Malt Sessions! Find out more about our journey to releasing our very first whiskie…

V&C Festival Sparkling Wine Tasting

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Valvona & Crolla
31st Jul - 1st Aug 2025

Celebrate the arrival of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in style at Valvona & Crolla with this relaxed tasting of delicious Italian sparkling wines, tutored by Francesco Cardina…

In Pour Taste: A Comedy Wine Tasting Experience

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Assembly Rooms
31st Jul - 24th Aug 2025

Comedians Sweeney Preston and Ethan Cavanagh and a guest wine expert guide you through five wine tastings, and at least five jokes.

Whisky For Dafties

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Just The Tonic at the Caves
31st Jul - 24th Aug 2025

Global sell-out show 2010-2025.

V&C Festival Sparkling Wine Tasting

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Valvona & Crolla
1st - 2nd Aug 2024

Celebrate the arrival of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in style at Valvona & Crolla with this relaxed tasting of delicious Italian sparkling wines, tutored by Francesco Cardina…

In Pour Taste: A Comedy Wine Tasting Experience

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Assembly George Square Studios / Assembly Roxy
1st - 25th Aug 2024

Comedians Sweeney Preston and Ethan Cavanagh guide you through tasting five wines and at least five jokes.

Single Malt Sessions

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Holyrood Distillery
1st - 22nd Aug 2024

Enjoy a guided tour of our whisky distillery before enjoying live entertainment in our distillery bar.

Thinking Drinkers: The Booze-ical

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Underbelly, Bristo Square
31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024

Following last year’s sell-out Edinburgh run, the self-styled hardest-working beefcakes in alcohol-based infotainment are back.

Arbikie Whisky Tasting

Join the Arbikie team to learn about their field to bottle whisky production and sample some of their award-winning whisky.

Tom Bruce-Gardyne Whisky Masterclass

Tom Bruce-Gardyne is an award-winning drinks writer, specialising in whisky.

Arbikie Gin Tasting

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The A Club at the Merchants Hall
11th - 25th Aug 2023

Arbikie is Scotland’s leading field-to-bottle distiller and the world’s first single-estate distillery producing vodka, gin and whisky from the crops (barley, wheat, potatoes a…

Drag Queen Wine Tasting

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Edinburgh City Centre
9th - 27th Aug 2023

Get ready for mischief with this campatious event fuelled by quality wine, low tone, a scrumptious pairing and a big fat singalong.

Perfect Pairing: A Wine Tasting Dancegustation

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Greenside @ Infirmary Street
6th - 19th Aug 2023

Enjoy four wines paired perfectly with four dance pieces in this original Australian wine-tasting-meets-dance-theatre production.

Whisky & Witches Presents Mythical Beasts: An Immersive, Mystical, Musical Whisky Tasting

Whisky and Witches sees the combination of Danish-born Christine Kammerer’s musical forte with the whimsical storytelling of Jane Ross.

The Dram Good Whisky Festival

The Merchants Hall will be open for the complete whisky experience with open tastings and talks about this wonderful industry.

The Thinking Drinkers Pub Quiz: Fancy Another Round?

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Underbelly, Bristo Square
3rd - 27th Aug 2023

After a 2022 sell-out run, the world’s funniest alcohol experts are back in quizness with a brand-new show that serves up five discerning drinks for everyone.

V&C Festival Sparkling Wine Tasting

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Valvona & Crolla
3rd - 4th Aug 2023

Celebrate the arrival of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in style at Valvona & Crolla (established 1934), with this relaxed tasting of delicious Italian sparkling wines, tutored by F…

The Charmed Circle – Brewery and Distillery Walking Tour

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Holyrood Distillery
2nd - 24th Aug 2023

Our distillery is situated in an area once known as the Charmed Circle, named after the abundant underground water supply and the vast collection of breweries and distilleries that…

A Midsummer Night's Dram

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society
1st - 27th Aug 2023

Since we were formed in 1983, we’ve believed in doing things differently.

Whisky Through the Ages

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Jeffrey St Whisky & Tobacco
1st - 29th Aug 2023

Get ready to embark on a decadent journey through Scotland’s rich whisky heritage! After a three-year absence, our top-rated, Forbes-featured whisky tasting experience returns to T…

Charles Maclean Whisky Masterclass

Charles Maclean has been researching and writing books and articles about whisky since 1981.

George Egg: Set Menu (The Best of George Egg)

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Assembly George Square Gardens
16th - 28th Aug 2022

George cooks food while making you laugh.

Drag Queen Wine Tasting

As I take my seat in Mono Restaurant for Drag Queen Wine Tasting, I’m immediately struck by how professional everything looks.

Midnight Drams at Tipsy Midgie Whisky Bar

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Tipsy Midgie
6th - 29th Aug 2022

Join Colin (Whisky Forager) every midnight for an extra special flight of three fantastic single malts from his private reserve collection.

Arbikie Whisky Masterclass

Join the Arbikie team to learn about their field to bottle whisky production and sample some of their award-winning whisky.

The Thinking Drinkers Pub Quiz

Before the Thinking Drinkers even begins, the audience experiences a feeling which is very rare at Edinburgh Fringe: ‘This show is value for money!’Provided with a bag containi…

Holyrood Distillery Fringe Tour

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Holyrood Distillery
5th - 29th Aug 2022

Enjoying a guided flavour-forward experience, you will learn how our whisky and spirits are made, and about both the traditions and innovative new methods in craft distilling emplo…

Festival Celebration V&C Sparkling Wine Tasting

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Valvona & Crolla
4th - 5th Aug 2022

Celebrate the return of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at V&C with this relaxed, tutored tasting of delicious Italian sparkling wines: Prosecco, Metodo Classico, Spumante and more.

Drag Queen Wine Tasting

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Mono Restaurant
4th - 28th Aug 2022

Start your day with a campatious event fuelled by quality wine, a tasty snack and some low tone.

Two Guys, Three Drams: The Ultimate Live Blues and Whisky Experience

Is there a more intoxicating combination than blues music and good whisky? There is – blues music and multiple good whiskies.

Robert Graham 1874's Scotch Whisky and Artisan Food Experience

You first descend into a low-ceilinged basement.

The Gin Whore Tour

Katherine O’Neil really knows gin.

Arbikie Gin Masterclass

You are guaranteed to be off to a great start when you step into the gorgeous Merchant’s Hall with a G&T in hand.

The Art and Science of Gin

If you’re also the kind of person who thinks that you can’t go wrong when starting with a G&T then this is the event for you.

George Egg: DIY Chef

George Egg is a hybrid chef and comedian.

The Gin Whore Tour

Pardon me, but The Gin Whore Tour may have affected my ability to form coherent sentences.

Shit-faced Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

“Swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

Tea Mixology Workshop

Bluebird Tea Co are on a mission to make you happy with a cuppa.

The Gin Whore Tour

Much has been said and written about gin but Dorothy Parker probably uttered the most appropriate for this event.

Spaced: Whisky Theatre

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★★
Oliver Simmonds
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Valvona & Crolla Scottish Foodhall@Jenners
14th Aug, 2016

Imagine you’re fifteen.

Shit-Faced Shakespeare

The Edinburgh Fringe ‘smashed’-hit Shit-Faced Shakespeare returns in its seventh year to perform Measure for Measure in its unorthodox and unique inebriated manner.

A Pickering’s Gin Jolly

Gin is on the up.

JoJo Bellini's Kitchen Cabaret

May 6 marked the official opening of Brighton’s famous Fringe Festival, with glorious sunshine all day and a wonderfully warm evening, the British weather played its part in…

The Art of Reduction and the Distillation of Humanity: Whisky Theatre

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★★★★
Alex Hargreaves
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Valvona & Crolla Scottish Foodhall@Jenners
15th Aug, 2015

The Whisky Anorak return this year with writer and performer John Mark’s new piece of Whisky Theatre.

Edinburgh Gin's Night of Literature and Liquor

Much what it says on the tin, Edinburgh’s Gin Night of Literature and Liquor waltzes you through the history of gin distilling and the drink’s use and abuse by the literary world’s…