Facts about this distillery
Established
1961
Owner
Whyte & Mackay
Annual Capacity
36,000,000 Litres
Region
Highland
Number of Stills
Five Coffey stills
Website
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Invergordon Distillery. The Scotch that doesn’t go against the grain.
Located in Easter Ross, in the Scottish Highlands, this peaceful place, with a fascinating pictish past, offers spectacular views of Scotland’s unspoilt countryside.
A single grain malt that’s as good as gold.
Offering a variety of golden-coloured flavours, depending on the age and type of whisky – Invergordon is a sweet, delicate, high-quality-grain Highlander. A dependable dram; crisp and light; and a relative newcomer to the world of whisky, born in 1961.
The distillery has remained with Whyte & Mackay, who’ve almost doubled the site in size.
The benefits of a Coffey, not pot, still.
Invergordon is a grain Scotch – a single ‘grain’ whisky, rather than a single malt whisky. It uses a Coffey still, not a pot still. A Coffey still uses locally sourced Scottish wheat, rather than barley to make its whisky. The wheat is unmalted, which means the starch is converted to sugar through heating. A single ‘malt’ Scotch uses 100% malted barley. A Coffey doesn’t. The Coffey stills were installed in the 1970s.
A Coffey still can produce a lighter, smoother spirit than on a pot still. Coffey stills are also more efficient and economical. A grain whisky cannot be a single malt, but grains can be a key ingredient in blended Scotch whiskies.
Invergordon Distillery produces around 40 million litres of spirit per annum – which mostly goes into Whyte & Mackay blends.
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