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Release Notes
Our Cask Strength combines 87% peated and 13% unpeated spirit. Its been matured in 90% Bourbon matured stock and 10% Sherry.
Ardnamurchan
According to Ardnamurchan's data sheet this batch was blended from 26 casks, including 3 American Standard Barrels filled in 2016, 1 Sherry Butt filled in 2017 and 22 American Standard Barrels filled in 2017 as well.
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3rd Party Tasting Notes
Nose: Coastal peat smoke, vanilla and tangy and bright citrus zest.
Palate: Maritime peat, ripe orchard fruit, warm oak and a gentle, warm black pepper spice. Finish: Lingering peat with a subtle seaweed salinity.
Palate: Maritime peat, ripe orchard fruit, warm oak and a gentle, warm black pepper spice. Finish: Lingering peat with a subtle seaweed salinity.
Ardnamurchan
The Distillery: Ardnamurchan
| Established: 2014 |
| Silent since: False |
| Address: Acharacle PH36 4JG |
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Legal distilling was unknown on the remote Ardnamurchan peninsula until independent bottler Adelphi opened its distillery there in 2014. This is not however the first distillery to bear the Adelphi name.
The original was built in the Gorbals district of Glasgow in 1826, passing into the hands of Archibald Walker in 1880, making the firm the only distiller to make whisky in Scotland, Ireland and England. By 1887 it was producing over 500,000 gallons of both malt and grain whisky a year. It was bought by DCL in 1903 and its pot stills stopped four years later. Grain was made until 1932. The site is now where Glasgow’s Central Mosque stands.
Archibald Walker's great-grandson, Jamie, started Adelphi as an independent bottler in 1993. Its current owners bought the firm in 2004.
A hydro-electric generator in the river which also provides Ardnamurchan’s cooling water generates all the power required, while a biomass boiler using wood chips from a local forest provides all the hot water. The draff heads to local herds and pot ale goes as fertiliser for the fields.
Two styles of spirit have been made from the outset – peated and unpeated. Both use barley grown on the estate of one of the owners.
The original was built in the Gorbals district of Glasgow in 1826, passing into the hands of Archibald Walker in 1880, making the firm the only distiller to make whisky in Scotland, Ireland and England. By 1887 it was producing over 500,000 gallons of both malt and grain whisky a year. It was bought by DCL in 1903 and its pot stills stopped four years later. Grain was made until 1932. The site is now where Glasgow’s Central Mosque stands.
Archibald Walker's great-grandson, Jamie, started Adelphi as an independent bottler in 1993. Its current owners bought the firm in 2004.
A hydro-electric generator in the river which also provides Ardnamurchan’s cooling water generates all the power required, while a biomass boiler using wood chips from a local forest provides all the hot water. The draff heads to local herds and pot ale goes as fertiliser for the fields.
Two styles of spirit have been made from the outset – peated and unpeated. Both use barley grown on the estate of one of the owners.
from ScotchWhisky.com
The Owner: Adelphi Distillery Ltd.
| Established: 1993 |
| Silent since: False |
| Address: Charlestown |
| → website |
The Adelphi company traces its origins back to 1825 and the establishment of Adelphi distillery in the Gorbals district of Glasgow. Adelphi was founded by brothers Charles and David Gray, who changed its name to Loch Katrine Adelphi after a vast pipeline was created to carry water from Loch Katrine to the city of Glasgow. The distillery began to use this water source during the 1860s, and the change of name took place in 1870.
A decade later ownership of the operation passed to A Walker & Co, who owned large distilleries in Liverpool and the Irish city of Limerick. Distilling ceased during the first decade of the 20th century after the distillery was acquired by the Distillers Company Ltd in 1902.
The Adelphi Distillery Ltd name was revived in 1993 by Jamie Walker, the great-grandson of former distillery owner Archibald Walker. He operated Adelphi as an exclusive independent bottling operation before selling it to Keith Falconer and Donald Houston in 2004.
Adelphi Distillery Ltd is owned by Donald Houston and Keith Falconer, and has its headquarters at Charlestown in Fife, though Houston is laird of the Ardnamurchan Estate in the West Highlands of Scotland, and it is on his land that Adelphi built its own distillery.
The company specialises in single cask bottlings, which are offered without chill-filtration or the addition of colour. Some 50 casks are bottled each year, and the ‘Fascadale’ name recurs on small-batch bottlings from unspecified island distilleries at a variety of ages.
Adelphi is also now a distiller as well as a bottler, and its Ardnamurchan distillery – opened in 2014 – has the capacity to produce up to 450,000 litres of spirit per year, some of which will eventually make its way into Fascadale and other house expressions, while quantities will also be used for reciprocal trading.
A decade later ownership of the operation passed to A Walker & Co, who owned large distilleries in Liverpool and the Irish city of Limerick. Distilling ceased during the first decade of the 20th century after the distillery was acquired by the Distillers Company Ltd in 1902.
The Adelphi Distillery Ltd name was revived in 1993 by Jamie Walker, the great-grandson of former distillery owner Archibald Walker. He operated Adelphi as an exclusive independent bottling operation before selling it to Keith Falconer and Donald Houston in 2004.
Adelphi Distillery Ltd is owned by Donald Houston and Keith Falconer, and has its headquarters at Charlestown in Fife, though Houston is laird of the Ardnamurchan Estate in the West Highlands of Scotland, and it is on his land that Adelphi built its own distillery.
The company specialises in single cask bottlings, which are offered without chill-filtration or the addition of colour. Some 50 casks are bottled each year, and the ‘Fascadale’ name recurs on small-batch bottlings from unspecified island distilleries at a variety of ages.
Adelphi is also now a distiller as well as a bottler, and its Ardnamurchan distillery – opened in 2014 – has the capacity to produce up to 450,000 litres of spirit per year, some of which will eventually make its way into Fascadale and other house expressions, while quantities will also be used for reciprocal trading.
from ScotchWhisky.com