by agnestse | Jul 31, 2024 | Distillery
Located on the Cawdor Estate, the distillery was built by Captain William Fraser who – upon returning from a successful period in India – recognised that getting into the whisky industry was an industrious thing for a young man to do. Unfortunately, so did a number...
by agnestse | Jul 31, 2024 | Distillery
The peated whisky which Bruichladdich makes is today aged in warehouses on the site of the former Port Charlotte/Lochindaal distillery, two miles down the road from Bruichladdich. The original distillery’s disappearance from the Scottish whisky scene would come as a...
by agnestse | Jul 31, 2024 | Distillery
The Macallan was one of the first farm based distilleries in Speyside, created to use up spare barley in the winter months when farming was not taking place. It sits beside the River Spey and its 485 acre estate includes the Easter Elchies house which adorns every...
by agnestse | Jul 31, 2024 | Distillery
In 1868 Brown’s son William inherited the distillery and in 1872 completely demolished and rebuilt the site to be larger and more modern. The refurbishments took the distillery’s capacity to 50,000 gallons per year, a huge increase. The distillery continued to...
by agnestse | Jul 31, 2024 | Distillery
The distillery was eventually revived, but went through numerous closures, re-openings and transformations throughout the 20th century including a bankruptcy in 1972, a revival as a set of holiday lets in 1982 and a storage site for cheese production. Today, the name...
