Distilleries

From an incredible history to amazing innovation – find out more about Bowmore with Gavin Smith.

We recently had the pleasure of visiting Glen Scotia Distillery during the Campbeltown Festival. Take a look at what we got up to.

The Glenmorangie Company, together with its partners including Scottish Natural Heritage are hosting the meeting bringing together marine scientists conservationists, administrators and oyster producers from across Europe, with the aim of developing a ‘blueprint’ for native oyster reef restoration. At least 15 European countries will be involved in these efforts.

There’s an old joke that goes around the Maker’s Mark Distillery... “if we could make it any faster, we wouldn’t”

Tobermory are all about celebrating creativity and pride themselves in being expressive in nature They say that every spirit they craft “is an expression of the rich palate that our Hebridean home provides.”

Let’s learn more about Tobermory…

Combining centuries old craft with an innovative approach to whisky-making is all in a day’s work for Loch Lomond Distillery’s Master Blender, Michael Henry…

Win a trip to Isle of Raasay Distillery, home of R&B Distillers, including accommodation, breakfast, a distillery tour and whisky tasting.

Change is something that many brands fear, however, the brands that thrive are ones that embrace change.

With exciting announcements on the horizon for The GlenDronach and The BenRiach, we look back on Gavin Smith's interview for Whiskeria with the three distilleries' then-newly appointed Whisky Maker, Rachel Barrie, back in Autumn 2017.

Little did local barley farmer and school teacher Alexander Reid know, when he took out a licence for what was to become The Macallan distillery in 1824, that almost two centuries later the brand of whisky still made on that site would be celebrated as one of the world’s greatest malts. Nor could he have envisaged that his modest two-still enterprise would have been transformed into what is arguably the most distinctive whisky distillery of them all.