Pulteney (whiskey distillery)
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| country | Scotland |
| region | Highlands |
| Geographical location | 58 ° 26 '6.4 " N , 3 ° 5' 5.6" W |
| Type | Paint |
| status | active |
| owner | Inver House Distillers Ltd |
| Founded | 1826 |
| founder | James Henderson |
| Water source | Loch of Yarrows |
| Washstill (s) | 1 × 21,707 l |
| Spiritstill (s) | 1 × 17,343 l |
| Production volume | 1,000,000 l |
| Website | www.oldpulteney.com |
Pulteney ['pʊltni] is the name of a distillery for single malt whiskey , located in the port town of Wick in the county of Caithness in Scotland . The distillery site is in an urban location, but, which has a significant impact on the taste of the whiskey produced here, is only 230 meters from the sea. The single malt scotch whiskey produced by the distillery is called Old Pulteney , whereby the word Old (English for 'old') is meant to indicate that the whiskey matures particularly quickly (and not that it is particularly old). Because of its slightly salty and dry taste, it is also nicknamed the Manzanilla of the North . The name Pulteney is also the name of the part of the town of Wick in which the distillery is located and which was named after Sir William Johnstone Pulteney, the director of the British Fisheries Society at the time. In 1810 he had designed parts of the city as an ideal fishing port. With its two stills , the distillery is one of the smaller ones in Scotland and was the northernmost on the Scottish mainland until the Wolfburn distillery opened in 2013.
history
The distillery was founded in 1826 by James Henderson in what was then the herring metropolis. It remained in the family for almost a hundred years. A turbulent time followed with numerous changes of ownership, overshadowed by the prohibition that was imposed in the town in 1922 and which banned the sale of whiskey until 1947. In 1920 the distillery was sold to James Watson & Co. , then in 1923 to Buchanan-Dewar, which was itself taken over in 1925 by Distillers' Company Limited ( DCL ). In 1930 production had to be stopped. It resumed in 1951 after the distillery was bought by lawyer Robert Cumming. In 1955 there was another takeover by James & George Stodart Ltd, a subsidiary of the Canadian beverage empire Hiram Walker & Sons. The distillery was rebuilt in 1958, and a year later the own floor malt house was closed. At that time, the whiskey produced was mainly used for blends , especially for Ballantine’s . However, the independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail was allowed to sell some of the whiskey as a single malt whiskey under the name Old Pulteney. After James & George Stodart Ltd was taken over by brewery giant Allied Breweries in 1961 , the owner (now called Allied Domecq) finally parted ways with the distillery in 1995 and sold it to Inverhouse Distillers. In line with the trend towards single malt whiskeys, the owner finally brought the first owner bottling onto the market in over 60 years, an Old Pulteney that had been stored for twelve years . Since then, numerous others have followed, including a 17 and a 21 year old. 21-year-old Old Pulteney was named Whiskey of the Year 2012 by Jim Murray in his annual Whiskey Bible. The distillery has recently made a name for itself because, together with the city administration, it has launched a project to use the waste heat generated during distillation. The heat dissipated is sufficient to heat around 1,500 households.
production
The relatively peaty water is drawn from the Loch of Yarrows, about seven kilometers from Wick. Only the cooling water comes from the Loch of Hempriggs, which is a little closer. The malt is obtained from the Robert Kilgour malt factory in Kirkcaldy and is not peated , i.e. dried without a peat fire. The malt mash is mixed in a cast iron mash tun ( mash tun ). And the six fermentation tanks ( wash backs ), each with a capacity of 24,000 l, are made of cast iron , although they are lined with stainless steel . The distillery has only one pair of stills , a 21,700 l coarse still ( wash still ) for the first and a 17,300 l fine still ( spirit still ) for the second and last distillation. The larger wash still was originally a bit too big, so the distillery manager decided to shorten the top of the still. On both stills there is a T-shaped and slightly sloping so-called lyne arm , through which the distillate reaches the condenser connected to it , in this case a worm tub made of stainless steel. This form was more common in the past, but is rarely used nowadays. Ultimately, it is a spiral-shaped tube, the worm . The spiral is vertical and leads through a tub filled with cold water, so that the steam coming from above condenses and runs down.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Jackson: Malt Whiskey . DK, London 2015, ISBN 978-3-8310-3009-5 , pp. 306 .
- ^ Franz Brandl: Whisk (e) y . Südwest, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-517-08335-3 .
- ↑ The Whiskey Exchange ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ I. Ronde: Malt Whiskey Yearbook 2008 . MagDig Media, Shrewsbury 2007, ISBN 978-0-9552607-2-8 .
- ↑ Misako Udo: The Scottish Whiskey Distilleries . Black & White Publishing, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 1-84502-130-4 .
- ↑ Walter Schobert: The Whiskey Lexicon . 3rd edition. Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-15868-3 .
- ^ Charles MacLean: Malt whiskey . Heyne Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89910-050-1 .
