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2022 Updates – Distillery Expansion, Dornoch South
In late 2022 we finally put in plans for our new distillery at Dornoch South. We now wait with bated breath for the response to our planning application but hope to be breaking ground for the site in 2023. Our aim for the new distillery on Dornoch South would be to create a distillery which…
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2022 Updates: The Release of SRV5 and TB/BSW
2022 brought many new and exciting experiences to Dornoch Distillery, some of the most exciting things to happen were the releases of two core blends, SRV5 and TB/BSW. …
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New Barley Variety Blog (Part 2)
Heritage Barley Varieties Part 2 Hi All, I thought I’d continue on our barley journey and wanted to introduce you to our next variety: Scotch Common. For those who need a refresher (or missed it the first time around), you can find the blog here. Scotch Common The next variety we received was Scotch Common…
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New Barley Variety Blog (Part 1)
Heritage Barley Varieties Part 1 Those of you that follow us on social media, or are members of The Fans of Dornoch Distillery Facebook group (a fantastic little group, I highly suggest you join if you are not already a member), will have seen that in the past five months we have been producing…
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2022 Updates
After a much deserved break over Christmas and New-year, we are back in production and we had some very exciting juice to come back to. Every Christmas we like to carry out extra, extra long fermentations. We filled the washbacks in the last week of production before the break and they were left to do…
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Arran 2011 ‘Honeymoon Cask’
In February 2019 at the Chichibu Matsuri Simon and I met a super energetic whisky enthusiast who would be translating for them during a Thompson Bros/Dornoch Distillery seminar at the Whisky Matsuri – His name was Tatsuya Ishihara. He translated our story very well to the receptive audience. It was a pleasure to work with…
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Local Barley Project
Throughout April and March I was taken away from my usual production responsibilities (leaving production in Euan’s very capable hands) to carry out Dornoch Distillery’s very own Local Barley Project 2021, in collaboration with Michael Shaw at Golspie Mill, who kindly allowed us to use his kiln. We’ve carried out this project once before on…
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Bottling Update
Hi All, Just a short message this time just to keep you all updated on our recent bottlings. We’ve been very busy at our second site receiving, gauging, reracking, vatting, diluting, filtering, bottling, labelling and boxing new whiskies. A surprising amount of work goes on behind the scene to bring you our single cask offerings,…
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Thank you!
Wow. We have been absolutely blown away by everyone’s support and all of us who are a part of this amazing collaboration are absolutely thrilled to be able to donate a massive £25,106.30 for Covid-19 relief in India to Khalsa Aid and the Hemkunt Foundation – and that doesn’t even include the gift aid which…
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April Adventues
Hi All We are pleased to report that, for the first time this year, production continues as normal with no breaks or stoppages! The first casks with post lockdown spirit have been filled (an ex-Glen Moray barrel, a lovely, tropical smelling ex-ale cask, and a cognac cask amongst others) with 10 day fermentation length spirit.…