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Teaninich distillery from the air — Highland Scotland, by The Single Cask

Teaninich Distillery: The Highland Giant Without a Mash Tun

One of Scotland's biggest and least-known distilleries, Teaninich threw out its mash tun in 2000 and never looked back. We have bottled it eleven times — here is the full guide to the grassy Highla...

Dalmore Distillery: The Stag, the Sherry and a £40 Million Bet

Dalmore wears a royal stag earned in 1263, matures its whisky in sherry casks few others can get, and has just doubled in size after a £40 million rebuild. Here is the full story of the Highland lu...

Blair Athol distillery from the air — Highland, Scotland, by The Single Cask

Blair Athol Distillery: The Highland Heart of Bell's

Everyone has tasted Blair Athol; almost nobody knows it. Here is the story of the Pitlochry distillery behind Bell's, its nutty, sherry-loving malt, our dozen-plus single cask bottlings of it, and ...

Glen Ord Distillery

Douglas Laing and Signatory Vintage have performed the majority of independent bottlings available on the market today from Glen Ord distillery, so finding any other independent bottlings from t...

Deanston

From cotton mill to distillery. Deanston had conformed to a modern style of production during the Invergordon era, producing a light dry ‘nutty-spicy' make. The malting is not done in-house anymo...

Royal Brackla

In 1835, it was the first Scotch to be granted a Royal Warrant and the rights to call itself Royal Brackla. This seal of approval from King William IV led to Brackla being known as ‘The King’s Ow...

Clynelish

History of Clynelish whisky distillery Clynelish distillery was built in 1819, adjacent to the present operational Clynelish distillery which was built in 1967. When Clynelish first started distil...

Ben Nevis

Old-style whiskies have always been Ben Nevis's pride and joy since its launching. About Ben Nevis is one of the last distilleries in Scotland to maintain a traditional fermentation using brewer...

Ardmore

Ardmore is a large Victorian distillery, its heft and scale sticking out from its rural surroundings. It is the last distillery to adopt a peated Highland malt style, and the second-last distille...