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

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Western Highlands:

Glenlochy

The distillery

Glenlochy distillery
North Road
Inverlochy, Fort William
Invernessshire PH33 6TQ

Owner:
When active:: United Distillers & Vintners (Diageo)
Now:West Coast Inns Ltd

Creation date : 1898

The Glenlochy distillery has been founded in 1898 by David McAndies, who was the director of the Glenlochy Fort William Distillery Co. The first production took place in 1901, three years later. In those hard times for distilleries, Glenlochy had to close during WWI and again in 1919. 6 years later, the distillery resumed production, in 1925. But not for a long time... as it is mothballed the very next year in 1926 for about 10 years, before being purchases in 1937 by Train & McIntyre who resumed the production from 1938.

From that time, the distillery has been part of Associated Scottish Distilleries. DCL (which would become Diageo later) acquired Train & MacIntyre from an American company called Nationa Distillers and Glenlochy is transfered to Scottish Malt Distillers (SMD). Production continued until 1983, when the distillery was definitely closed, just like so many others in those times.
The owners applied for permission to demolish the distillery, and this permission was not given as the distillery is part of Scottish history. The premices have been sold to a hotel group, West Coast Inns Ltd, and they got the permission to demolish the distillery, with the exception of the kiln and the pagoda roof, declared a historic building.
Apart from some (rare) independent bottlings (Gordon & MacPhail, Duncan Taylor) and an edition in the Rare Malts series, the whisky of this distillery is very difficult to find.
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The whisky

List of the bottles

Description of the distillery

	Glenlochy
	whisky
Duncan Taylor	Rarest of the Rare 24 years	17

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Glenlochy 24 years Rarest of the rare
Age	24 years
Alcoholl	61,2%
Bottler	Duncan Taylor
Price/litre

Bottling: Rarest of the Rare Glenlochy 1980 - 24yo Single Malt Scotch Whisky.
Cask No: 2451.
Colour: Gold with orange Highlights.
Nose: Minty, soft anteseptic cream and vanilla.
Flavour: Medicinal, slight smokiness comes through the creaminess.
Finish: Big finish, creaminess and touch of spice.
Comments: A big dram that needs a splash.
(Note from Duncan Taylor)

An intense floral nose with vanilla (custard) hints, a touch of smoke, marshmallow and a some discrete sherry notes. An impression of smoothness. The mouth is rather different, as the first impression is pungency, alcohol and then some citrus acidity. After a while, the acid side clearly dominates the woody bitterness of the beginning; The finish is rather long, and the woody taste of the palate fades slowly to finish on nice malty notes.

Western Highlands

This wild and hilly area with a windy seaside was not favourable for distillation. Only two distilleries in the North of the area and two others in the South are still active.

Click on the map for a list of the distilleries of the area, on the title for further information about the Western Highlands 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

Last update: Sunday, 02-Nov-2008 16:16:03 CET
Thu 29 07 2010, 18:05 - 96 visiteurs au cours de la dernière heure et 11 visiteurs sur le site en ce moment.
Copyright:Jean-Marie Putz (2003-2007)

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