Mortlach
| Mortlach / Dufftown Distillery | |
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| country | Scotland |
| region | Speyside |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 26 '35 " N , 3 ° 7' 20.6" W |
| Type | Paint |
| status | active |
| owner | Diageo |
| Founded | 1823 |
| founder | James Findlater, Donald Mackintosh, Alexander Gordon |
| Washstill (s) | 3 |
| Spiritstill (s) | 3 |
| Production volume | 2,900,000 l |
Mortlach is the oldest legal whiskey distillery in Dufftown , Banffshire , Scotland . Some of the distillery buildings are classified in category B in the Scottish list of monuments.
history
The distillery was founded in 1823 by James Findlater, Donald Mackintosh and Alexander Gordon. The name Mortlach is interpreted differently, in addition to the translations "large green hill" or "bowl-shaped valley" it is sometimes translated as "massacre of the wild geese", whereby "wild geese" means the Danish army, which was founded by the Scottish King Malcolm II. was defeated in the Dufftown area in 1010.
Originally the distillery was called Dufftown Distillery and belonged for a time to John and James Grant of Glen Grant , then later to George Cowie, before being operated by Distillers Company Ltd. (DCL) and United Distillers (UD) eventually came to Diageo , which they still own today.
The distillery's most famous apprentice was, by the way, William Grant, who later became the founder of Glenfiddich .
production
The water from the Speyside distillery comes from springs in the Conval Hills. The distillery has a mash tun (12 t) made of stainless steel , six fermentation vats (59,000 l each) made of larch wood , three wash stills (together 32,500 l) and three spirit stills (together 26,000 l).
Unusually for Scottish whiskeys, part of the whiskey at Mortlach is distilled in a triple distillation process , as is otherwise known from Ireland . Here is The Wee Witchie called spirit still No. 1, which is also the smallest pot still is the distillery, as intermediate nursing used, but only the will lag ( feints ) from the first two wash stills in their distilled not from wash still No. 3, the largest pot still.
Bottlings
Since 2018, Mortlach's core range has consisted of 12yo, 16yo and 20yo.
Older official bottlings were: Mortlach Rare Old, Mortlach 18 years and Mortlach 25 years. There was also a 16-year-old with 43% for the “Flora & Fauna” series, as well as for the “Rare Malts Selection” and, in some cases, exclusive bottlings for individual traders and exporters.
Since Mortlach had not bottled himself for a long time, many of the independent bottlers still have him in their range, some with very old bottlings. Originally offered primarily by Gordon & MacPhail , or have or recently had. a. Vintage Malt Whiskey Co. (Coopers Choice), Signatory , Adelphi , Cadenhead Murray McDavid and many more on offer.
See also
literature
- Gilbert Delos: Les Whiskeys du Monde. Translation from French: Karin-Jutta Hofmann: Whiskey from all over the world. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1998, ISBN 3-86070-442-7 , pp. 89 and 104.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ New: Mortlach 12yo, 16yo, 20yo
- ↑ Vintage Malt Whiskey Company was founded in Glasgow in 1992 and distilled the whiskeys Tantallan , Glen Andrew and Tambowie .