Glengyle distillery

Glengyle is a whiskey distillery founded in 1872 by William Mitchell and 1873 completed. The distillery buildings are sorted in the Scottish lists of monuments in the B category.

As the whiskey industry was hit by the Depression and Prohibition in the United States in the 1910s, had to be sold because of poor current business in 1919 as a consequence the distillery. Only a short time later, in 1924, the distillery changed again the owner. This drove the production of the distillery down a year later and sold the remainders of the whiskey.

An attempt by Maurice Bloch to open the distillery again was abandoned when World War II broke out. Bloch had at the time with his brother already, also based in Campbeltown distillery Glen Scotia. Then only in the 1950s Glengyle was the company Henderson Campbell Ltd.. returned to service.

Renovation

End of 2000, the distillery by Mitchell's Glengyle Ltd.. again put in order and updated. The distillery is managed since then by Hedley Wright, who is a descendant of the founder, William Mitchell and already leads the also located in Campbeltown Springbank distillery. The stills you purchased materials from Ben Wyvis distillery, who were there only a few years of service before it was closed in 1976.

Production

Production began in 2004 with the production of the first distillate. The distillery produces only two months a year, which is sufficient for an annual production of 60,000 liters. Already on 5 May 2007, ie exactly after the time for whiskey minimum aging period of three years, a whiskey called Kilkerran was bottled and can be sampled at the distillery of visitors. The distillery is the first, which was opened after the turn of the millennium in Scotland (again).

The whiskey of the Glengyle distillery will not bear the name of the distillery, but sold under the name Kilkerran. This happens partly because it is a tradition in the region Campbeltown, not to provide whiskey with a " Glen ", the Gaelic word for valley, in the name. Secondly, the confusion is to be avoided with a vatted malt, which is also called Glengyle. In addition, the naming rights could not be acquired.

Production interruption

On August 27, 2008, the owner of J & A Mitchell & Co. Ltd. announced. known that temporarily no new Springbank and Glengyle whiskey is produced. The reason very high commodity prices have been specified. In early 2009, the production, as announced on 24 November 2008, resumed in two distilleries.