Distilleries
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Ballindalloch Ross-shireThe Glenlivet Distillery
The Glenlivet distillery is a distillery near Ballindalloch in Moray, Scotland that produces single malt Scotch whisky. Whatever stage of your whisky journey you are on you are sure to have heard of The Glenlivet; their single malt after all is known as ‘the single malt whisky that started it all�... -
Craigellachie ScotlandThe Macallan distillery
The Macallan distillery was founded by Alexander Reid, a barley farmer and school teacher. The original name of the area was “Maghellan”, taken from the Gallic word “magh”, meaning fertile ground and “Ellan”, from the Monk St.Fillan - who held a close association with the church that sto... -
Tain Ross-shireBalblair Distillery
Balblair, by its very name (which means battlefield), is laden with history and is the Highlands’ oldest operating distillery. Residing in the heart of Clan Ross territory and with inter-generational Ross men still working at the distillery to present day, this mystical distillery and site was off... -
Perthshire Scotland
Deanston Distillery
Deanston Distillery is a fascinating story of commerce and endeavour. The Distillery began its life as a flax mill and in 1785 John Buchanan and his brothers from Carston decided to use the conveniently located River Teith to upgrade it to a state-of-the-art water powered mill and named it the Adelp... -
Sutherland Scotland
The Adelphi Distillery
The Adelphi Distillery was established in 1826 on the south bank of the River Clyde in the heart of Glasgow. By the 1880’s, under the stewardship of Archibald Walker, it had become, quite possibly, the most technically advanced distillery in Scotland – 5 steam engines, 9 washbacks, 510,000 gallo... -
Rothes Scotland
The Glenrothes Distillery
The Glenrothes story begins in 1868 when a local grain merchant named James Stuart took a lease on Macallan, a small farm distillery a few miles south of Rothes. In a bid to raise funds for the expansion of Macallan he and a solicitor from Elgin named Cruikshank formed a company with two local agent... - <div data-content-type="row" data-appearance="contained" data-element="main"><div class="distilleries-info-block" data-enable-parallax="0" data-parallax-speed="0.5" data-background-images="{}" data-element="inner" data-pb-style="6176892AC32F9"><h3 class="page-title" data-content-type="heading" data-appearance="default" data-element="main">Ready to access exclusive member benefits?</h3><div data-content-type="text" data-appearance="default" data-element="main"><p>Join free for access to exclusive single malt from the world’s best distilleries</p></div><div data-content-type="buttons" data-appearance="inline" data-same-width="false" data-element="main"><div class="button-link" data-content-type="button-item" data-appearance="default" data-element="main" data-pb-style="6176892AC3309"><a class="pagebuilder-button-link" href="subscriber/account/create" target="" data-link-type="default" data-element="link" data-pb-style="6176892AC3325"><span data-element="link_text">Join free now</span></a></div></div></div></div><style>#html-body [data-pb-style="6176892AC32F9"]{justify-content: center; display: flex; flex-direction: column; background-position: left top; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll;}#html-body [data-pb-style="6176892AC3309"]{display: inline-block;}#html-body [data-pb-style="6176892AC3325"]{text-align: center;}</style>
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Knock Scotland
The Knockdhu Distillery
The Knockdhu Distillery was established in 1893 after an enterprising gentleman named John Morrison uncovered a spring on Knock Hill’s southern slopes and, as luck would have it, the water was of excellent quality. The Distillers’ Company made an offer for the land and in May 1893 put up the Kno... -
Elgin Scotland
Benriach Distillery
The BenRiach (meaning ‘speckled mountain‘) Distillery has had an interesting start to say the least. It was established in 1898 by John Duff, who had set up the famous Longmorn Distillery five years prior. The two distilleries were joined by a private railroad on which ‘The Puggy’, a steam l... -
Forres Scotland
The Benromach Distillery
Benromach’s is the story of a true craft distillery. The smallest of Speyside’s 50-odd distilleries, Benromach was established in 1898 in the midst of a whisky boom and fell victim to bust in the Pattison Whisky Crisis two years later in 1900, along with The Benriach we featured last month. It w... -
Bruichladdich Scotland
Kilchoman Distillery
Kilchoman, Islay’s farm distillery One historic day back in 2005, a charming barn-like distillery by the name of Kilchoman was opened on a farm in the Rinns of Islay, a fertile area on the west coast of the famed whisky region of Islay in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. -
Dundalk
Cooley Distillery
When John Teeling founded Cooley Distillery in 1987, it was the first new whiskey distillery to be set up in Ireland in over 100 years. Teeling had conceived the idea in a pub in 1971 while still a student at Harvard after completing two papers on the decline of Irish whisky – and like many succes... -
Sendai-shi Miyagi-ken
The Miyagikyo Distillery
The Miyagikyo Distillery is owned by the Nikka Whisky company. The story of Nikka Whisky, and indeed that of Japanese whisky, begins with a remarkable man called Masataka Taketsuru, famously known as the father of Japanese whisky. Born in 1894 to a family of saké producers, Taketsuru was working fo... -
Huntly Scotland
The GlenDronach Distillery
Known as “the sleeping giant”, GlenDronach is one of Scotland’s oldest distilleries and only the second to be granted a license to produce whisky after the Excise Act of 1823. James Allardice, a remarkable and extroverted man who loved a drink and a good time, founded the distillery on the Boy... -
Edinburgh Scotland
Wemyss Malts
Wemyss Malts is a boutique independent bottler of single cask and blended (vatted) malt whiskies and is this year celebrating it’s 10th anniversary. Wemyss Malts is owned by the Wemyss family, one of the old families of Scotland, with a rich history which including the Scottish Wars of Independenc...
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