The whisky region of the Highlands is located north of the line you could draw between Edinburgh and Glasgow. It includes the region ‘Speyside’, where the most popular salmon river is situated, and the River Spey. 

Highland Single Malts Whiskies can generally be desribed as mild and fruity. But there do exist exceptions, some distilleries do produce a heavy peated whisky in some weeks of the year, e.g. the Benriach Distillery. It also gets more and more difficult to name a general character for the whisky of this region because of an increasingly number of experiments with different types of casks which are done.