One Scottish Distillery Gets Funded, Another Might See Expansion Scuppered

The Three Stills Company announced late last week they had secured £10m in funding to open a distillery in Harwick, in the Scottish Borders region. The company is already in the whisky business as the bottlers of Clan Fraser, and intend to present their formal plans for construction and apply for permits next year.

The Three Stills project joins that of Mossburg Distillers to open a distillery in the Borders proper, which hasn’t seen an active whisky distillery for almost two centuries. Annandale Distillery reopened in 2014, and although it is sometimes referred to as being in the Scottish Borders its actual district is Dumfries and Galloway.

While Three Stills secured their funding, another distillery plan received a major setback. Local planning chiefs announced they would recommend against the £4m warehouse expansion plan of Glenglassaugh Distillery, owned by BenRiach. Reports say this means the plan is unlikely to receive council approval in its current form.