Cardhu

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Cardhu (formerly: Cardow)
Cardhu.jpg
country Scotland
region Speyside
Geographical location 57 ° 28 '14.5 "  N , 3 ° 20' 57.8"  W Coordinates: 57 ° 28 '14.5 "  N , 3 ° 20' 57.8"  W.
Type Paint
status active
owner Diageo
Founded 1824
founder John and Helen Cumming
Water source Lyne Burn
Washstill (s) 3 (together 36,000 l)
Spiritstill (s) 3 (together 31,500 l)
Production volume 2,300,000 l
Warehouses
CARDHU bottle and packaging

Cardhu [ kaɾdu ] (formerly Cardow ) is a whiskey - distilling at Cardow, Knockando , Banffshire , Scotland , United Kingdom . The current owner is Diageo .

history

  • 1824 Founding of the Cardow distillery by John and Helen Cumming.
  • 1884 Rebuilding on a neighboring site by Elizabeth Cumming, the daughter of John and Helen. Among other things, she sold the old stills to William Grant , who equipped Glenfiddich with them .
  • 1893 sold to John Walker & Sons Ltd. ( Johnnie Walker ).
  • 1925 Distillers Company Limited (DCL) takes over John Walker & Sons Ltd. and with it Cardow too.
  • 1960 expanded from four to six stills.
  • 1983 Renaming of the distillery to Cardhu.
  • 1987 Takeover by Diageo .

Cardhu is Gaelic and means "black rock".

production

The Speyside distillery's water comes from springs on Mannoch Hill and Lyne Burn. It has a mash tun ( mash do ) (7.2 t) and eight fermenting tanks ( wash backs ) (together 296,000 l). Distillation takes place in three wash stills (together 36,000 l) and three spirit stills (together 31,500 l), which are heated by steam.

Products

The whiskey from this distillery is an important part of the Johnnie Walker Blends . A 12 year old, a 15 year old, an 18 year old and a 22 year old single malt whiskey appear under their own label . There is also the Special Cask Reserve in small editions , also a single malt whiskey and meanwhile other bottlings without an indication of age, e.g. B. Amber Rock and Gold Reserve . Cardhu has been bottled twice as a rare malt , in 1998 and 2000. The independent bottler Signatory has a 27-year-old bottled in 1999.

In the 70s and 80s, an 8-year-old and a 15-year-old Cardhu were bottled. These are hard to come by today and are very popular among collectors.

A so-called “pure malt” whiskey, whose components are at least 12 year old single malts from neighboring Speyside distilleries, aroused people's minds in 2003 because it was bottled in an almost identical bottle as the single malt whiskey. Diageo withdrew the "Pure Malt" in early 2004. In order to avoid such incidents in the future, the categories were redefined in the Scotch Whiskey Regulations of 2009. Whether this really provides more clarity is questionable, however, since “Vatted Malt” is now called “Blended Malt”, which can easily be confused with “Blended (Scotch) Whiskey”.

address

Cardow, Knockando, Aberlour, Banffshire AB38 7RY

See also

literature

  • Charles MacLean (Ed.): Whiskey. World Guide, Regions, Distillers, Malts, Blends, Tasting Notes. Dorling Kindersley, London et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-7566-3349-3 .
  • Walter Schobert: The whiskey dictionary. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 978-3-596-15868-3
  • Ingvar Ronde (Ed.): Malt Whiskey Yearbook 2017 MagDig Media Limited, Shrewsbury. 2016, ISBN 978-0-9576553-3-1

Web links

Commons : Cardhu  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Cardhu on discovering-distilleries.com

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingvar Ronde: Malt Whiskey Yearbook 2008 . MagDig Media, Shrewsbury 2007, ISBN 978-0-9552607-2-8 .