by agnestse | Jul 31, 2024 | Distillery
Matheson sold the distillery to three brothers of the Mackenzie family. With them came their family crest, a 12 pointed Royal stag, which adorns each of the company’s whisky releases. This crest dates back to 1263 when Colin of Kintail, the chief of Clan Mackenzie,...
by agnestse | Jul 31, 2024 | Distillery
After Mackenzie died in 1865, his wife leased the distillery to local banker James Fleming, before her son Thomas took over once more in 1879 alongside Fleming. The distillery went through many owners over the years, and survived a major fire in 1917, eventually...
by agnestse | Jul 31, 2024 | Distillery
Craigellachie distillery was built in 1891 in Banffshire at the very heart of Speyside, between Rothes and Dufftown. Here the distillery is in close proximity to the blissful confluence of rivers Spey and Fiddich. From the whisky distillery, perched high on the rock...
by agnestse | Jul 31, 2024 | Distillery
The distillery – which means ‘Sound of Islay’ in Gaelic – had a rocky start, with a few failed attempts at running it by a series of well-intentioned whisky operators. By the 1920s, it had fallen into the hands of DCL, which would later become Diageo. The distillery...
by agnestse | Jul 31, 2024 | Distillery
The Bunnahabhain distillery occupies a quiet spot on Islay away from some of the main distilling strips in the south of the island. But its quiet locale is counterposed with huge Victorian warehouses which dot the shoreline, and giant stills inside its stillhouse. The...
