Welcome to day 13. If you are making it here on day 13 congratulations we know from experience that 13 days straight is an achievement. To honour that achievement we have a quite new distillery so its unlikely you have had anything from it. As such lets tuck in quickly maybe you found a new favourite?
Whisky
Country: Scotland
Age: NAS
ABV: 46.8%
Story
A hydro-electric generator in the river which also provides Ardnamurchan’s cooling water generates all the power required, while a biomass boiler using wood chips from a local forest provides all the hot water. The draff heads to local herds and pot ale goes as fertiliser for the fields.
Two styles of spirit have been made from the outset – peated and unpeated. Both use barley grown on the estate of one of the owners.
History
Legal distilling was unknown on the remote Ardnamurchan peninsula until independent bottler Adelphi opened its distillery there in 2014. This is not however the first distillery to bear the Adelphi name.
The original was built in the Gorbals district of Glasgow in 1826, passing into the hands of Archibald Walker in 1880, making the firm the only distiller to make whisky in Scotland, Ireland and England. By 1887 it was producing over 500,000 gallons of both malt and grain whisky a year. It was bought by DCL in 1903 and its pot stills stopped four years later. Grain was made until 1932. 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 firm in 2004.
Tasting Notes
Nose:Citrus notes, cheesy funk, light peat smoke, Steel-cut oats fresh from the bag or box, lemon meringue pie, grainy bread dough just starting to bake in the oven.
Taste: poutine, Key Lime tarts, oatmeal, a stick of juicy fruit gum.
Finish: Coastal, smoky and sweet mineral note
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