• Bunnahabhain The name Bunnahabhain is an anglicisation of Bun na h-Abhainne, Scottish Gaelic for Mouth of the River. The Bunnahabhain Distillery was founded in 1881 near Port Askaig on Islay and is the Northern-most Islay distillery. The village of Bunnahabhain was founded to house its workers. The Bunnahabhain Distillery draws its water from the Margadale […]

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  • Glenfiddich The Glenfiddich Distillery was founded in 1886 by William Grant in Dufftown, Scotland, in the glen of the River Fiddich. The Glenfiddich single malt whisky first ran from the stills on Christmas Day, 1887. In the 1920s, with prohibition in force in the USA, Glenfiddich was one of a very small number of distilleries […]

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  • Balvenie Balvenie is located in Dufftown. In early 1892 work began to convert an 18th-century mansion (Balvenie New House) into a distillery.The building took fifteen months to complete, and on 1 May 1893, the first distillation took place at the Balvenie Distillery. Since being first built, Balvenie has been continually under the ownership of William […]

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  • Loch Lomond Loch Lomond Distillery was established in 1964 by the former owners of the Littlemill Distillery in Bowling. Production began in Loch Lomond the following year in 1965. In 1984, the distillery stopped production until Glen Catrine Bonded Warehouses acquired the business and resumed malt production in 1987. Grain whisky production began in 1993 […]

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  • Kilchoman The Kilchoman distillery (pronounced Kil-ho-man) is a distillery that produces single malt Scotch whisky on Islay, an island of the Inner Hebrides. The distillery is situated on the western side of Islay, near the small settlement of Kilchoman. The location made it the most westerly distillery in Scotland, until the Abhainn Dearg Distillery started […]

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  • Dailuaine 4 Year Old 2012 (bottled 2017) Morrison & MacKay Whisky is the home of such liqueurs as Columba Cream, Bruadar, Ginger Tam’s and our new Fruit Liqueur Range. We are also home to the Carn Mor whisky collection. Càrn Mòr bottler has several hundred bottlings that I found on the Whiskybase website. The Càrn Mòr Strictly […]

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  • Crabbie Crabbie’s traces its founding to 1801 when Miller Crabbie was a merchant in Edinburgh. The business was inherited by his son John Crabbie (1806 – 1891) who went on to found John Crabbie & Co. In the mid-19th century, John Crabbie acquired a former porter brewery located between Yardheads and Great Junction Street in […]

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  • Fettercairn The Fettercairn whisky distillery is located near the River Esk in the Eastern Highlands. At the foothills of the Cairngorm Mountains, Fettercairn sits in Fettercairn. There are no other Scotch distilleries nearby. Fettercairn distillery was founded in 1824 by Sir Alexander Ramsay, who licensed it a year later. In 1830, Sir Alexander sold the […]

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  • Dailuaine In 1852, William Mackenzie founded Dailuaine Distillery. Dailuaine derives from the Scottish Gaelic “An dail uaine” for green valley. Dailuaine Distillery is located in Spey valley. After William’s death in 1865, William Mackenzie’s wife leased the distillery to a banker from Aberlour called James Fleming, who, with William’s son, formed Mackenzie and Company in […]

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