Port Charlotte distillery

Lochindaal, written or hole Indaal called Port Charlotte, was a whiskey distillery in Port Charlotte, Islay, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The fire produced was thus the Islay Whisky Region assign. Besides Lochindaal existed with Octomore a second distillery in Port Charlotte. The still -existing customs warehouse of the distillery were included in the British lists of monuments in the category C (S) 1980.

History

The distillery was founded in 1829 by Colin Campbell. Within the next 26 years the business moved five times the owner, until finally John B. Sherriff took over the distillery in 1855. In 1895, the JB Sherriff & Co. Ltd.. founded, which also owned shares of Lochhead distillery in Campbeltown and the Bowmore distillery on Islay. 1920 took over the Benmore distillery in Campbeltown Lochindaal that nine years later by Distillers Company Ltd.. (DCL ) was incorporated and the Lochindaal distillery closed in the same year. The warehouses have been preserved and used.

When Alfred Barnard in the context of his major whiskey trip visited the distillery in 1885, it had an annual production capacity of 127,068 gallons. There were three stills are available, but not the division between coarse and fine blisters nor the capacities of the individual combustion appliances have survived.

The neighboring Bruichladdich distillery announced in the summer of 2010 to build on the site of a new distillery under the name of Port Charlotte and probably again from 2011 to produce whiskey there. Due to the financial crisis, these plans were shelved. With the takeover of Bruichladdich by Rémy Cointreau funds for reconstruction were provided. The new opening date has been announced for 2016.