Scotland, Campbeltown: Single malt whisky through the producing distilleries: history, making, production and tasting notes
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Gengyle

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The distillery

Glengyle

Glengyle distillery
85 Longrow
Campbeltown
Argyll
PA28 6EX
Tel: +44 (0) 1586 552009

Owner Loch Lomond Distillery Co Ltd
Creation date: 1872, closed in 1925 and re-established in 2000

The Glengyle distillery has been the first to reopen in Campbeltown in 125 years. It is situated near Springbank and belongs to the same owner.
Glengyle was created in 1872 by Willaim Mitchell and the construction took place in 1873. Its first life was rather short, as it closed in 1925. All the stock was sold in an auction and it was used from the early 1970's as the depot and sales office of the Kintyre Farmers Cooperation.
The great-great nephew of the founder, Hedley Wright decided to reopen this distillery, which was achieved in November 2000, making it the first new distillery in Campbeltown in more than one centruy.
The new distillery was operational at March 25, 2004 when the first Kilkerran batch was distilled.
Malting happens at the neighbour Springbank distillery and the mill was purchased (second hand) from Craigellachie disitllery. The wash still comes from Ben Wyvis.

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The whisky

The sites below offer tasting notes for this distillery. Please click on the logo to access this notes.

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Geography


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Campbeltown

Carte Campbeltown

Campbeltown was once the undisputed capital of Scotch whisky. The town is situated at the end of the Mull of Kintyre peninsula, on the Western coast of Scotland, not far away from the Isle of Islay.
There is only one active distillery left (Springbank), another producing sporadically (Glen Scotia) and a new one (Glengyle) in an area where there were more than 30 of them in the early 1900's.

Click on the map for a list of the distilleries of the area, on the title for further information about the Campbeltown area, and if you want to make an "alphabetical journey" through the area, please click on one of the pagode roofs, according to the direction you want to follow

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Photos de la distillerie

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