Big whisky makes dram fine sight

The enormous whisky bottle has already become a tourist attraction

A bottle of whisky believed to be the world's biggest has been unveiled in a Strathspey village.

The 5ft tall bottle of single malt has been inched into place at Tomintoul's Clockhouse restaurant.

It has already become a tourist attraction, with visitors keen to have their photo taken beside the bottle.

It had to be commissioned from a manufacturer in Germany and is now filled with about 150 bottles of 14-year-old Tomintoul Distillery whisky.

It has been certified by the Guinness World Records as the largest bottle of Scotch ever produced.

'Talking point'

Irene McPherson, owner of the Clockhouse restaurant, said: "We've had quite a few people coming in just to see it and get photographed with it, so it is a talking point.

"Hopefully it'll bring in more tourists and people coming out for a run just to have a look at it."

Mike Drury, who runs a specialist whisky shop in the village, said the most worrying part of the whole enterprise was when it came to hammering in the cork.

He said: "We have massive conglomerate distillery companies and I don't know what could have been wrong with them not to have thought of it before.

"So Tomintoul - a wee little village in the middle of nowhere - has done it. The largest bottle of whisky in the world."