Is Macallan considered a Highland or a Speyside?

[Gary Wells]

Is Macallan considered a Highland or a Speyside?
On the Macallan bottle they mention that it is a Highland, but I came across a site the other day that listed it as a Speyside?
What category would you place it in strictly using it's characteristics as a guideline?

[Soundmangt4]

If they say it's a Highland on the bottle, then a Highland it is. Period.

[Gary Wells]

Originally Posted by Soundmangt4

If they say it's a Highland on the bottle, then a Highland it is. Period.

Thanks, Soundmangt4, for the response. That makes sense. Maybe Wikipedia, go figure, noted it as a Speyside.

[nitehawk55]

Well I think the Highland region is considered part of Speyside , some just like to make the area known .

[blenderm]

I think that it's the other way that Speyside is part of the Highlands as it's about 40 times smaller. Both are considered as different whisky areas, and that these areas have a different influence on the whisky distilled there. Geographically Campbletown is part of the Highland region but is a different region for the whisky distilled classifying whisky

[Theus]

Originally Posted by blenderm

I think that it's the other way that Speyside is part of the Highlands as it's about 40 times smaller. Both are considered as different whisky areas, and that these areas have a different influence on the whisky distilled there. Geographically Campbletown is part of the Highland region but is a different region for the whisky distilled classifying whisky

I guess you meant that Campbeltown is part of the Lowland region..

Theus