Ardnamurchan - AD/ 2022 - Bourbon & Sherry Cask - 46.8%
Ardnamurchan Distillery is located in Argyll, on the most westerly point of mainland Britain, in the Highlands of Scotland . Legal distillation was unknown in the remote peninsula of Ardnamurchan until independent bottler Adelphi opened its distillery there in 2014. It is however not the first distillery to carry the Adelphi name. The original was built in the Gorbals area of Glasgow in 1826, passing into the hands of Archibald Walker in 1880 and making the company the only distiller to make whiskey in Scotland, Ireland and England. By 1887 it was producing over 500,000 gallons of malt and grain whiskey a year. It was taken over by DCL (Distillers Company Limited) in 1903 and its stills were shut down four years later due to the 'Great Gorbal Catastrophe'. One of the distillery's fermentation tanks collapsed, engulfing the nearby street in a tidal wave of hot liquor and killing people; one man drowned and many others were lucky enough to escape. The site is now where Glasgow's Central Mosque stands. Archibald Walker's great-grandson Jamie started Adelphi as an independent bottler in 1993. Its current owners bought the business in 2004.
Ardnamurchan Distillery is strongly committed to green and sustainable principles ; all electricity and heat needs come from local renewables. The river that supplies the distillery's cooling water is equipped with a hydro-electric generator and the biomass boiler is fueled by wood from the local forestry. The overall footprint of the distillery is 1. Additionally, by-products from the whiskey-making process are recycled on the peninsula. The still energy-rich spent grain (which remains in the mash tun) is combined with “pot ale” to produce feed for the animals of the peninsula. The first bottling was launched in 2016. There were 2,500 bottles available worldwide and it sold out overnight.
Since 2022, new bottlings no longer bear the notion of month and year, and the batches show little difference. AD/ 2022 is made with a combination of peated (50%) and unpeated (50%) malt and matured in ex-Bourbon (65%) and ex-Sherry (35%) casks.
Slightly Peaty