Port Dundas

Port Dundas was a distillery in Glasgow, Scotland, which was shut down in 2010.

History

The distillery was founded in 1811 by Daniel McFarlane in today's Glasgow's Port Dundas. An eponymous distillery was built in 1813 by Brown & Co Gourlie. Both produced the usual at this time malt whiskey. 1845 has been installed in two distilleries Coffey stills and thus the production switched to grain whiskey. Both distilleries merged in 1877 and became part of the Distiller Company Ltd (DCL ). A major fire destroyed in 1903 variable parts of the building, but the distillery was rebuilt. The Scottish Grain Distillers operated Port Dundas from 1966 and modernized the facilities. Announced in 2009 the owner Diageo to the closure of the distillery. 2010, the distillery was closed.

Production

The water required for the production of whiskey was as of Strathclyde distillery taken from the Loch Katrine. It was fired in three Coffey stills, which had a maximum production capacity of 390,000 hectoliters.

Samples

The produced whiskey is used to prepare blends. The distillery has not issued any stock bottling; However, there are several bottlings independent bottler.