By Richard Thomas Speyburn, the Speyside distillery owned by Inver House Distillers best noted for it’s bargain 10 Year Old single malt, has just concluded a two year, £5 million ($7.2 m) improvements project. The distillery was built in 1897, and much of the project involved restoration work on the distillery’s historic buildings. However, it also included the installation of ...

By Kurt Maitland Rating: B- Allt-A-Bhainne is a young Speyside malt whisky distillery that, founded in 1975. Built to supply the blended whisky needs of the Chivas Brothers, the distillery stayed in their hands even as the company itself passed from Seagram’s to Pernod Ricard. The distillery (pronounced Ollt-err-VANE) derives its name from the Gaelic, which means ‘burn of milk’. ...

By Richard Thomas If you are a whisk(e)y enthusiast of any stripe, and have been for any substantial length of time, you’ve already encountered at least one Scotch snob. Perhaps it was virtually, in a whisky forum, or perhaps it was in the flesh at a bar or a convention. However it happened, you already know, dear reader, exactly what ...

By Richard Thomas The independent, Broxburn-based Scotch whisky company Ian Macleod Distillers has received £60 million in bank loans for expansion projects. The loan comes from a group of banks led by the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Bank of Scotland, and is secured against Ian Macleod’s whisky stock. Ian Macleod is the tenth largest whisky company in Scotland, ...

By Richard Thomas Although not formally opened, the new InchDairnie Distillery is reported operational and producing spirit. Ground was broken on the outskirts of Kinglassie in Fife a year and a half ago, and is among the most modern distilleries in Scotland. Projected to produce 2 million liters of spirit a year, InchDairnie will produce stock malt whisky for sale ...