Glen Scotia distillery
Glen Scotia is both the name of a Scottish whiskey distillery and their single malt whiskey. This is produced in the village and independent Whisky Region Campbeltown on the Kintyre, Scotland peninsula. Campbeltown previously disposed more than 30 distilleries, of which to this day - in addition to Glen Scotia - only the Springbank distillery is left. A third distillery, Glengyle, has passed the end of 2004. The distillery buildings are sorted in the Scottish lists of monuments in the B category.
Name
The name Glen Scotia is " glen skuscha activities" and means " Valley of the Scots ". In the Irish county of Kerry, there is the Glen Scota. Named after the fallen in the battle of Sliabh Mis Queen of the Milesians. Scota was buried in a valley above Tralee.
History
The distillery was founded in 1832 by Steward, Galbraith & Co.unter the name Scotia Distillery. She has since been a convoluted history behind it and had always phases in whom they have not produced over the years. As with many other distilleries also, the business was going very well until the end of the 19th century, so that another distillery that had to be Glen Nevis Distillery Add bought, in order to meet the high demand. In 1919 the distillery was on the West Highland Malt Distillers Ltd.. ( WHMD ) over given that already had other distilleries of the Kintyre peninsula. A few years later the company went bankrupt and all their distilleries - in addition to Glen Scotia Glengyle yet, Dalintober, Kinloch and Ardlussa Distillery - had to be closed. A 1924 attempt, undertaken by former WHMD - member Dancun MacCallun to awaken Glen Scotia back to life, already failed in 1928, eight years later Bloch Brothers Limited took over the business. ; them already owned the Scapa Distillery. There was a fairly successful time until 1954, the distillery to become known by the Canadian Club Whiskey Hiram Walker has been sold. Just one year later, she moved again to the owners and fell to the company A. Gillier & Co, which itself Amalgamated Distillers Products Ltd.. Was acquired in 1970. In the period 1979 to 1982, the distillery has been extensively renovated, but suspended production in 1984. Only with the acquisition of the distillery by Gibson International Production started again in 1989. Also, this company finally failed and was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1994. The current owner, Glen Catrine Bonded Warehouse, ultimately bought the bankrupt's estate, consisting of the distillery and the whiskey stored. However, production has been resumed only in 2000.
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Production
The water belonging to the region Campbeltown distillery comes from Cross Hills hole. It has a mash tun and six fermenting vats ( per 17,000 liters ) of COR- TEN steel, a wash still (16,000 liters) and a spirit still ( 12,000 l).
Products
Glen Scotia Aged 12 Years, 40 vol %
This is currently the only distillery bottling of Glen Scotia and successor of published only for a short time 8 year old bottling. The published over longer time 14 -year-old version (also with 40 vol % ) is now not bottled.
New Range, 46 vol%
End of 2012/early 2013 comes after a relaunch of a new range in the trade, which is filled with 46 vol %, and colored and not chill-filtered. The ages are now 10, 12, 16, 18 and 21 years, although it can be assumed that the 10 - and 12 -year-old bottlings were produced after the reopening of the distillery in 2000, while the older bottlings from the time before the temporary closure 1994 date, which is why the current 16 -year-old is likely to be actually older.