Dufftown Dufftown is generally known as the capital of Speyside, boasting very easy access to many of the distilleries, but not many ” General ” whisky drinkers will have heard of the Dufftown distillery, founded in 1895 by Peter Mackenzie, Richard Stockpole, John Symon and Charles MacPherson, the distillery was originally named the Dufftown-Glenlivet Distillery….
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Benromach Heritage 1977 – 41 year old
Benromach Founded In 1898 by The Benromach Distillery Company this Speyside Distillery is today under the ownership of Independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail. The distillery has the capacity to make 700,000 litres of alcohol per year from its 1.5 ton semi lauter mash tun, 13 washbacks and one pair of stills. The majority of the…
Inchgower 14 year old batch 3 – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Day 15 and we are heading to Speyside.. Inchgower Distillery comes under the ownership of Diageo and was founded back in 1871 by Alexander Wilson, the equipment was brought in from the Tochineal distillery which was also owned by Alexander but was no longer in use.. Today the distillery is primarily producing whisky for…
Cooper king Distillery.
Cooper King Distillery is the latest name to the growing list of new distilleries starting up within the Uk, located just north of the City of York and nestled between the Howardian Hills and the Yorkshire Dales National Park, the distillery is within a stones throw of other major visitor attractions of York and surrounding…
Glendronach 2003 Single cask – batch 14
Glendronach 2003 Single cask The 2nd review in this series is the Glendronach 2003 Single cask from the batch 14 release.. Like the 2004 this is single malt whisky is from a Sherry puncheon and is cask #4034, this was distilled on the 7th February 2003 and Bottled September 2016 making this a 13 year old single…
Paul John – Classic select cask
Paul John The Indian whisky invasion takes another big step with the incredible Paul John Classic select cask.. This is a batch release created by Master Distiller Michael John who first started his journey back in 1993 and later in 2009 became the Master distiller for Paul John whisky through John Distilleries. The whisky is…
Lagavulin 8 year old
Lagavulin Distillery The distillery officially dates back to 1816, this is when John Jonston and Archibald Campbell constructed two distilleries on the site. One of them became Lagavulin. Records show that illicit distillation occurred in at least ten illegal distilleries on the site dating as far back as 1742. The Lagavulin distillery is located in…
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