Ardnamurchan - 10 years - 50%
Ardnamurchan Distillery is located in Argyll, on the westernmost point of the British mainland, in the Highlands of Scotland . Legal distilling was unknown on the remote Ardnamurchan Peninsula until independent bottler Adelphi opened its distillery there in 2014. It is not, however, the first distillery to bear the Adelphi name. The original was built in the Gorbals area of Glasgow in 1826, passing into the hands of Archibald Walker in 1880 and making the company the only distiller making whisky in Scotland, Ireland and England. By 1887, it was producing over 500,000 gallons of malt and grain whisky per year. It was bought by DCL (Distillers Company Limited) in 1903 and its stills were shut down four years later due to the 'Great Gorbals Disaster'. One of the distillery's fermentation vats collapsed, engulfing the nearby street in a tidal wave of hot alcohol and causing death; one man drowned and many others were lucky to escape. The site is now the site of Glasgow Central Mosque. Archibald Walker's great-grandson Jamie started Adelphi as an independent bottler in 1993. Its current owners bought the business in 2004.
Ardnamurchan Distillery is strongly committed to green and sustainable principles ; all electricity and heat requirements are sourced from local renewable energy. The river that provides the distillery's cooling water is equipped with a hydro-electric generator and the biomass boiler is powered by wood from local forestry. The distillery's overall footprint is 1. In addition, by-products from the whisky-making process are recycled on the peninsula. The still energy-rich spent grain (what is left in the mash tun) is combined with the 'pot ale' to produce feed for the peninsula's animals. The first bottling was released in 2016. There were 2,500 bottles available worldwide and it sold out overnight.
Ardnamurchan Distillery celebrated its tenth anniversary in the summer of 2024. To celebrate this milestone, a unique batch of Ardnamurchan 10 Year Old was released. The single malt was first aged in first fill Bourbon casks and then finished for over a year in barrels that had previously contained Paul Launois Champagne .
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