This bottling of a Kilkerran from the Glengyle distillery is an exception to the actual character of a Campbeltown whisky due to the heavily peated whisky. In the Peat in Progress series, you can observe the progress in production, here with Batch 2 from 2019.
The Glengyle distillery, which produces the Kilkerran single malt, was founded in 1872 and originated as a spin-off from the Springbank distillery. It closed in 1925, but was renovated and reopened by Springbank in 2004. The distillery's malts are typical Campbeltown representatives with enormous craftsmanship.
The Campbeltown region got its name from the most important place on Kintyre and included all the distilleries on the peninsula. In its heyday there were said to have been 20-30 distilleries, but since the 1920s the number has declined so that today only Glen Scotia and Springbank (with Longrow and Hazelburn, both names of defunct distilleries) remain.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
This bottling of a Kilkerran from the Glengyle distillery is an exception to the actual character of a Campbeltown whisky due to the heavily peated whisky. In the Peat in Progress series, you can observe the progress in production, here with Batch 2 from 2019.
The Glengyle distillery, which produces the Kilkerran single malt, was founded in 1872 and originated as a spin-off from the Springbank distillery. It closed in 1925, but was renovated and reopened by Springbank in 2004. The distillery's malts are typical Campbeltown representatives with enormous craftsmanship.
The Campbeltown region got its name from the most important place on Kintyre and included all the distilleries on the peninsula. In its heyday there were said to have been 20-30 distilleries, but since the 1920s the number has declined so that today only Glen Scotia and Springbank (with Longrow and Hazelburn, both names of defunct distilleries) remain.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
