Glenturret distillery

Glenturret distillery

Glenturret is a distillery in Crieff on the River Turret, Perthshire Scotland, United Kingdom. The distillery is part of the liquor company The Edrington Group, claims for itself claim to be the oldest still producing distillery in Scotland.

History

The distillery is one of the oldest in Scotland. Already in 1717 said to have been burned illegal whiskey here. Today's single malt distillery dates back to 1775. This date is also on today selling single malts from the distillery.

During bad economic situation in the late 1830s, it remained the only one of numerous previously Distilleries on the River Turret exist. The resurgent economy allowed the then owner Thomas Stewart in 1870 to expand the distillery. From 1929 to 1959, the distillery was silent. In 1957 she bought James Fairlie and produced since 1960 back whiskey. 1981 came Cointreau et Cie added as investors, 1990, the distillery from Highland Distillers was acquired, which in turn were taken over in 1999 by the Edrington Group.

Glenturret is also known because of the domestic cat Towser, who made ​​it to the Guinness Book of World Records: You reached a ripe old age for cats almost 24 years, and during that time allegedly killed 28,899 mice. She died in 1987, and in 1991 her a statue was erected in honor of the distillery.

Production

The water belonging to the Highlands distillery dates from Loch Turret. The malt used comes from the malt house of the Tamdhu distillery. The distillery has a mash tun ( mash do ) ( 11.4 t ) of wood, eight fermentation tanks (wash backs) douglas-fir, a wash still (12,500 liters) and a spirit still ( 9,000 l).

Visits

Glenturret has a well-developed visitor center and can be visited. In 1981, the Visitors Center opened as one of the first visitors centers in Scotland.

However, today the focus of the center is on the Famous Grouse products ( blended whiskey ) of the parent company ( = Grouse grouse ). Therefore he called the visitor center also "The Famous Grouse Experience " and it will all whiskeys shown that contribute to the Blend " Famous Grouse ", including the more famous Whisky The Macallan ( Speyside ). The whiskey of the actual distillery is mentioned more in passing. The production can be seen in a tour, the second part of the tour ( and the tasting ) then deals with Famous Grouse.