Distilleries

Ben Nevis Distillery: The Highland Malt With a Japanese Passport

Founded in 1825 by a six-foot-four giant, rescued by a Prohibition-era adventurer and owned since 1989 by Japan's Nikka, Ben Nevis makes some of the fruitiest, funkiest spirit in the Highlands. We ...

Highland Park Distillery: Orkney's Viking Malt and the Whisky That Hides Its Name

Floor maltings, heathery peat and sherry oak on an island the Vikings ruled for 600 years. The full Highland Park story, plus why independent bottlings never carry its name and what our own Whitlaw...

Dailuaine Distillery: The Green Vale That Gave Whisky the Pagoda

Every pagoda roof in Scotch whisky copies a design first built at Dailuaine in 1889. We explore Speyside's meaty, blend-bound heavyweight, from Charles Doig's original pagoda to the nine single cas...

The Balvenie Distillery: Dufftown's Keeper of the Five Rare Crafts

The Balvenie still grows barley, turns a working malting floor and keeps its own coppersmith and coopers. Here is the full story of Dufftown's hand-crafted Speysider, and an honest answer to the qu...

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...

Inchgower Distillery: The Manzanilla of Speyside

Inchgower is the only Scotch distillery ever owned by a town council, and the salty, spicy Speyside workhorse behind Bell's. We have bottled it more than a dozen times — here is the full story, fro...

Springbank Distillery: Campbeltown's Stubborn Survivor

The last great Campbeltown house malts, distils and bottles everything on one site, makes three different whiskies from one pair of malting floors, and cannot come close to meeting demand. Here is ...

Linkwood Distillery: The Whisky Nobody Was Allowed to Change

Blenders guard Linkwood so jealously that barely a drop reaches bottles under its own name. From the manager who protected the stillhouse spiders to the swans on the dam, here is the full story of ...

Talisker Distillery: The Peppery King of Skye

Skye's oldest distillery has been making peppery, maritime malt since 1830, in stills rebuilt as exact replicas after the 1960 fire. Here is the full Talisker story, and an honest answer to the que...