Moniack Castle
Moniack Castle near Beauly in the Highland region is a sixteenth-century Fraser family tower house now celebrated as the home of Moniack Mhor, Scotland's Creative Writing Centre, which offers residential writing courses and retreats in an atmospheric historic building. The castle has been operated as a winery producing elderflower, sloe and various country wines and liqueurs for many decades, and the combination of historic building, creative writing retreat and country wine production gives Moniack a distinctive and slightly eccentric character. The surrounding landscape of the Beauly Firth and the Black Isle is one of the most attractive in the eastern Highlands, and the nearby town of Beauly with its ruined Valliscaulian priory provides additional historical interest in this quietly scenic part of Inverness-shire.