Glen Elgin distillery
Glen Elgin is a whiskey distillery in Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
History
Glen Elgin was founded in 1898 by William Simpson, former manager of the distillery Glenfarclas, and James Carle. Production began in May 1900 but was reinstated after only five months. In February 1901 Glen Elgin was sold for 4,000 pounds at an auction at the Glen Elgin - Glenlivet Distillery Co.. 1904 was the distillery back into production, but was closed a year later again. 1906 bought the wine merchant JJ Blanche Co. distillery for 7000 pounds and started production again. JJ Blanche died in 1929 and Glen Elgin was for sale again. In 1930 the distillery of Scottish Malt Distillers ( SMD) was purchased and the license went to White Horse Distillers. 1964 Glen Elgin was restored and it expanded from two to six stills. In 1987, the SMD was acquired by UDV / Diageo. In 1992 the distillery for another renovation was closed again. New stills have been installed. In September 1995, production began again.
Production
The water belonging to the Speyside distillery comes from Millbuies Springs. The malt comes from the United Distillers in Burghead maltings and Roseisle. The distillery has a mash tun ( mash do ) ( 8.2 tonnes ) of stainless steel and six fermentation tanks (wash backs) ( per 40,600 L) in larch. Is distilled into three wash stills ( per 11,000 liters) and three spirit stills ( 11,700 liters each ), which are heated by steam coils.
Samples
As an original bottling, there is a 12 year old single malt whiskey in the Hidden Malts series of Diageo. In 2003 there was a 32 -year-old single malt (only 1,500 bottles) on the market. He has - due to its long aging in barrels - only 42.3 % alcohol.
In 2000, an anniversary bottling was released (100 years Glen Elgin ). This is around 750 bottles of a 19 -year-old Cask -Strength with about 60 % alcohol.