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The Glenfiddich distillery produces Glenfiddich whisky in Dufftown, Moray. Glenfiddich is a single malt Scotch whisky, this means the whisky was distilled at a single distillery using a pot still distillation process and must be made from a mash of malted barley. Onsite there are 43 distinctively-shaped "swan neck" copper pot stills.
On Christmas day in 1887, his distillery began operation, pioneering single malt Scotch whisky. Until Glenfiddich only blended brands were common. Until Glenfiddich only blended brands were common. Glenfiddich whisky from William Grant & Sons proved successful and so in 1892, he built a second distillery next door in Dufftown, known as the ...
The company's leading single malt Scotch brand is Glenfiddich, the best-selling single malt Scotch in the world as of 2016. [41] Roughly 1.22 million cases of Glenfiddich were sold in 2017. Another Grant single malt Scotch whisky also made the top ten list of best-selling Scotch whiskies in 2017: The Balvenie (#6).
Alexander Grant "Sandy" Gordon, CBE (6 May 1931 – 21 December 2020) was a Scottish distiller who was credited with creating a global market for single malt Scotch whisky. [1] As a managing director of the William Grant and Sons Glenfiddich distillery between 1968 and 1996, he is credited with global market success of the Glenfiddich brand.
Grant's is the oldest family-owned blended whisky and is currently sold in over 180 countries. It is the world's fourth largest Scotch whisky brand, selling 4.1 million cases of whisky in the first half of 2020. [6] The mother company, William Grant & Sons also owns single malt whisky brands, including Glenfiddich and The Balvenie. [7]
The two best-selling single malt whiskies in the world, The Glenlivet and Glenfiddich, come from Speyside. Strathspey has the greatest number of distilleries of any of the whisky-producing areas of Scotland. [1] Dufftown alone has six working distilleries with an annual capacity of 40.4 million litres of spirit. [2]
These days, most people associate single malt whiskey (the Irish spell it with the “e” like we do) with Scotland, but that is changing. The new Causeway Distillery cost Proximo £60 million to ...
A single malt Scotch whisky is one that is entirely produced from malt in one distillery. One may also encounter the term "single cask", signifying the bottling comes entirely from one cask. [38] The term "blended malt" signifies that single malt whisky from different distilleries is blended in the bottle. [39]