new lowland distillery

[vitara7]

just seen this posting on the bbc web site.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/sou ... 168589.stm

[Admiral]

Interesting, isn't it?

Funny...any time you read about plans on where to site a new distillery, the first thing you ever read is about its proximity to a good water source. Water isn't even mentioned in the article!

Cheers,
AD

[kallaskander]

Hi there,

I have been following the news about new distilleries. There are quite a few in the making or already working.

Kilchoman of course,

plans for Port Charlotte, Ladybank, Barra, Blackwood, Kendal in England, now Mellerstain, a new one on Skye.
Ballechin has come back through Edradour, there is a new micro distillery family owned of which the name just escapes me and if I remember right Glenlivet has gained permission to use a small still that was used by illicit distillers.
If you look cloesly the whisky news are fullof new projects.

Greetings
kallaskander

[Mustardhead]

Funny...any time you read about plans on where to site a new distillery, the first thing you ever read is about its proximity to a good water source. Water isn't even mentioned in the article!

Proximity to tourists seemed to be important though

Personally I'd put that down to the journalism, not the prospective distillers, but then I'm in a good mood today.

[Lawrence]

Of course tourists are close by, the new distillery will rely on tourist revenue, to some degree, until they have whisky to sell.

[vitara7]

they did mention in the artical that they hoped a visitors centre would be opened up during 2008....

seams all there bothered about is the tourits and their money...

[Jan]

Yes, but is'nt distillery visits growing fast these years? - think I remember to have read this on a few occasions.

Nothing wrong with earning a profit, as long as it does not interfere with the quality of the whisky, IMO.

[kallaskander]

Hi there,

another new distillery in the making.

http://www.thetfordandbrandontimes.co.u ... 3A50%3A190

Greetings
kallaskander

[vitara7]

but jan, the whole idea about a distillery is to produce whisky, the visitors are just an add of if you like. back in the 60's etc, no distillery had a visitors centre, they were built for the sole intention of making whisky. now the tourist element is there, these new ones have changed their target, it seams more about tourists that the whisky, which isnt the point in a whisky distillery... if they want tourists, why not have a whisky museum or somthing like that.

[Scotchio]

Tourism has breathed life into some distilleries, I believe Tullibardine was resurrected with one eye on tourism. A small scale operation in an accessible location with an immediate means of making capital(tourism) and the potential to develop a niche market makes for a less risky investment than comething on a big scale. I think the major producers are happy with their current capacity, the new small distilleries are a bit like the growing micro breweries in the beer industry, small lowrisk flexible and market savvy.

The established distilleries were mainly built to supply the blended market the new distilleries are being built to supply the smaller, more obsessive, single malt market which can ultimately provide the wider profit margins per item necessary for a smaller scale business. If they can throw in a tour to cement a relationship with the consumer that can do nothing but good for them.

There are tourists and there are whisky tourists, to a businessman the money of either has equal value

[kallaskander]

Hi there,

we talked about the resurrection of Rosebank the other day. One aspect of the original thoughts about that subject was in connection to tourism.

Greetings
kallaskander