The Story of The Wine Tower

This is not a lighthouse story but relates to the Wine Tower at Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh. The Wine Tower is a building which dates to the time of the castle at Kinnaird Head. It's use is unknown but there are several stories about it.

The castle at Kinnaird Head was owned by the Fraser family. Mr Fraser's daughter was young and beautiful, and of marrying age. The Frasers had high hopes for her. But she fell hopelessly in love with a travelling minstral, and he fell in love with her.

When he found out, Mr Fraser was livid. His daughter could not possibly marry the minstral without disgracing the family. He told his daughter to give up her love for the minstral. But she could not stop loving or forget the minstral, and she refused her father's requests.

Mr Fraser was now even more angry, his beautiful daughter had fallen in love with a minstral and was disobeying his orders. He shut her in the top of the Wine Tower as a punishment, and shut him in the bottom.

The two sections of the Wine Tower do not connect, there is no way to get between them, so although the daughter could hear her love's music, they could not talk or see each other.

The daughter was distraught. She could not bear to be without her love. So she climbed out of the window and jumped from the top of the tower to her death. There is still a patch of red on the rocks below the tower today.