Ardnamurchan - AD/02:16 - Single Cask 65 P - 57.9%
Ardnamurchan Distillery is located in Argyll, on the most westerly point of the British mainland, in the Highlands of Scotland . Legal distilling was unknown on the remote Ardnamurchan peninsula until independent bottler Adelphi opened its distillery there in 2014. It is not, however, the first distillery to bear 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 making whiskey in Scotland, Ireland and England. By 1887, it was producing more than 500,000 gallons of malt and grain whiskey per year. It was bought by DCL (Distillers Company Limited) in 1903 and its stills were shut down four years later due to the “Great Gorbals Disaster”. One of the distillery's fermentation tanks collapsed, engulfing the nearby street in a tidal wave of hot alcohol and causing death; one man drowned and many others were lucky 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 purchased the business in 2004.
Ardnamurchan Distillery is strongly committed to green and sustainable principles ; all electricity and heat needs come from local renewable energies. The river that supplies the distillery's cooling water is equipped with a hydroelectric generator and the biomass boiler is powered by wood from 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 (what remains in the mash tun) is combined with the “pot ale” to produce feed for the peninsula’s animals. The first bottling was released in 2016. There were 2,500 bottles available worldwide and it sold out overnight.
AD/02:16 Single Cask 65P brings together the peated and unpeated Single Malts (50/50) from the distillery and was aged in a single cask ( #65) that contained Oloroso sherry .
Slightly Peaty