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Kilkerran is the name given to the single malt whisky made at the Glengyle distillery in Campbeltown. The original Glengyle distillery was founded by William Mitchell in 1872 but lay dormant from 1925 until 2004, when the distillery reopened after an extensive refurbishment by new owners Springbank, whose head honcho Hedley Wright is descended from William Mitchell.
Kilkerran is a small operation run by Springbank’s staff and less than 100,000 litres are produced each year, of which around 20% is very heavily-peated spirit. The first official bottling of Kilkerran appeared in 2007, with various Work in Progress editions and single cask bottlings charting the evolution of the Kilkerran spirit. The core range now consists of Kilkerran 12-year-old, an 8-year-old Cask Strength edition and the 16-year-old, which first appeared in 2020.
In 1842 George Duncan established a wine merchant and distillery agency business in Aberdeen. Duncan was joined in the early 1850s by his brother-in-law William Cadenhead, who took over the business after Duncan’s death in 1858, changing the company’s name to Wm. Cadenhead. When Cadenhead died in 1904 the company passed to his nephew Robert Duthie, who developed the spirits side of the business.
Duthie died suddenly in 1931, and employee Ann Oliver was put in charge of Cadenhead’s. Sadly, Oliver’s tenure ended in financial difficulty and on her retirement in 1972 the business was forced to sell its entire inventory. Cadenhead’s was acquired soon afterwards by J & A Mitchell, proprietors of Springbank distillery, who relocated the business to Campbeltown. Cadenhead’s has flourished under Mitchell’s stewardship, releasing many legendary single malt bottlings in the 1980s and 1990s and now has outlets in Edinburgh and London as well as Campbeltown.
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| £120.00 | 22nd March 2023 | 10:14 AM | |
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