Facts about this distillery
Established
1829
Owner
The Bruichladdich Distillery Co. Ltd.
Annual Capacity
1,200,000 Litres
Region
Islay
Number of Stills
N/A
Website
N/A
Port Charlotte Distillery. Gone, but for Bruichladdich, never forgotten.
Port Charlotte Distillery officially closed in 1929, but some of its buildings remain intact, and in the hands of Islay’s Natural History Trust; there’s even a youth hostel which was once part of the distillery. Whisky-wise, Bruichladdich continues to utilise the Port Charlotte site for warehousing their heavily peated Port Charlotte brands of Scotch.
Seriously peated, but nicely balanced Scotch.
Originally known as the Lochindaal Distillery, Port Charlotte Distillery was named after the wonderfully scenic village it occupied on the whisky-rich isle of Islay. In its day it produced some seriously peated, but nicely balanced Scotch.
The defunct distillery was first operated by Colin Campbell in 1829. For the next thirty years it was bought, sold and ran by a handful of owners and companies. It even saw a couple of bankruptcies, and a large engulfing fire.
In its prime, almost 130,000 gallons of spirit a year were produced, amazingly making it one of the largest distilleries in Scotland.
Port Charlotte wasn’t the luckiest of distilleries.
The distillery lay dormant from 1929 until its revival by Bruichladdich in 2001. And in the hands of Bruichladdich, memories of Port Charlotte would live on.
Today, the site of the former distillery is used by Bruichladdich to produce three very different, highly sought-after, exclusive expressions – Bruichladdich, always unpeated; Port Charlotte, heavily peated; and Octomore, the world’s most heavily peated spirit!
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