The Whiskey Reviewer A World of Whiskey, Poured Every Weekday
By Richard Thomas
Clynelish, one of the distillery’s listed with Diageo’s “Classic Malts” series, is set to close for 10 months next year, when the distillery will undergo extensive renovation and maintenance. This work is supposedly a separate (and presumably smaller) project from the £30 million expansion previously proposed for Clynelish, but later shelved by Diageo when the British drinks giant aborted its massive expansion plans in November of last year.
A Highland distillery, Clynelish has a sometimes confusing relationship with the neighboring Brora Distillery. The original Clynelish was closed in favor of a new distillery bearing that name, opened in 1968. The old, mothballed Clynelish was then reopened the next year as Brora, and produced a heavily peated whisky for four years before closing again. Clynelish’s standard bearing single malt is the 14 Year Old.
