New Distilleries
Several new distillery projects have been announced in recent weeks here in Scotland.
In no order of priority here is the news.
Duncan Taylor have announced a distillery development in Huntly Aberdeenshire. A highland distillery
Wm Grant and Sons have announced the intention to build a lowland malt distillery at theier Girvan Grain Distillery complex in Ayrshire.
The old Annandale distillery site at Langholm Dumfiressshire has been purchased by a private buyer with the intention of re-building and opening up again….Another lowland distillery!
Add on also the two which were completed last year, namely Kilchoman on Islay, and Daftmill in the Bow of Fife….another lowland!! plus the ongoing project (?) of Blackwood Distillers now back to mainland Shetland from information received.
The massive project announced my the mighty Diageo at Roseisle up on the Moray Firth, and it is obvious that some thing is “a stirring” in the valleys and glens of Scotland.
Oh! and the news this past weekend of a £10m upgrade of the Invergordon Grain distillery to bring production capacity up tp 80m lpa per year more than doubling existing capacity and making it the largest single whisky producing facility in Scotland. This announcement followed hard on the heals of the purchase of Whyte & Mackay last week by Vijay Mallya’s United Breweries Group of India.
Not just in Scotland is all activity taking place though, lookout for things happening in other parts of the world, Sweden & the US ?????
Cheers
John
Scottish Borders
