You must be 18 or older to enter this site

We sell alcohol, so we need to confirm your age before you continue. Please enter your year of birth.



  • Update No.8 9th May 2016

    We are still here!   Everything has been progressing very well here in Dornoch. Drains are being laid this week and the 1st floor is also being worked on – new shiny steel beams to support some fermentation capacity and CLT’s on the 1st floor! Dornoch Castle has been very busy with lot’s of whisky…

  • Update No.7 20th April 2016

    Wow! What a crazy month! We want to thank everyone for the wonderful support we have received so far. We are completely and utterly humbled by everyone who has decided to financially support us via the various crowd funding tiers – we have only 45 Octaves left! There has been support from all over the…

  • Update No. 6 30th March 2016

    Quick state of play; Groundworks for warehouse and bottling hall done External building works started internal works starting 8th of April Pot stills ordered Column still ordered pumps ordered Wooden washbacks ordered Crowdfunding, raised over £90000 so far Working with HMRC to allow mini experimental setup 😉 Suppliers lined up for our specialist cereals and…

  • Update No 5 13th of March 2016

      Thank You everyone!   This week our building warrant finally came in (permission to begin building, applied for after planning permission is received) and we have booked contractors for clearing the way for wee warehouse and bottling room which will be hidden behind an existing building in the garden and we are organising a…

  • Update No 4 3rd March 2016. D-Day. Crowd fund Dornoch Distillery

    And they’re off.   Crowdfunder launched With the building warrant coming in this week we are allowed to start construction work converting the old Dornoch fire station, built in 1881, to the Dornoch Distillery.  Thanks for your patience.   A campaign went live this morning on a Scottish based crowd funding platform.  We had to…

  • Update No3 11th february 2016

    Here is a scary thing for you.  Our production will cost over  3 times as much as it could if we were to make a standard style of modern single malt whisky. I don’t like to talk about exact production specifics as we’ve put years of research into understanding old style production… Even though I…

  • Update No2 3rd February 2016

    A lot of people have been asking us about the our crowdfunding, part of which will be octave (50 litre casks) sales.   We are holding back on launching the crowdfunding until we get the go ahead on the building warrant and licensing, both of which *should* be granted within 30 days or so.   After that,…

  • Update No1 29th January 2016

    Welcome, We are Philip and Simon Thompson, brothers, and we are close to our dream of starting up our own distillery in order to put to test our spiritual hypothesis. We’ve been somewhat spoiled over the years, having the opportunity to taste what many consider to be some of the best spirits ever bottled.  We’d…