The Speyside based Dunphail Distillery, has today announced that it has started production.
The distillery which was constructed over 18 months by the
team behind the West London based Bimber Distillery, aims to take the
traditions of the past to craft the whisky of the future.
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| Dunphail Distillery |
Dunphail, which has a 200,000 LPA capacity, will operate a full suite of time-honoured processes including: on-site floor malting, traditional kilning, long fermentations and directly-fired stills.
Producing both unpeated and peated single malt whiskies, the
distillery will employ these long-established techniques to craft highly
textural, fruit-forward single malt whiskies which offer a profound, expressive
character kindred to the most distinctive whiskies created in Scotland’s past.
Dunphail’s malthouse features the first distillery-based
malting floor newly constructed in Speyside since 1898. As well as fundamental
to Dunphail’s whisky character, the facility was carefully designed and built
to preserve this highly traditional craft and is operated using traditional
malting tools.
Commenting on the news, Dariusz Plazewski, Master Distiller
at Dunphail, said: “It has long been my calling to produce whisky that has been
shaped by the richness of distilling heritage. At Dunphail we’re taking a
extremely detailed approach to our whisky making – combining our knowledge and
deep passion to ensure that everything we do is driven by the fundamentals of
flavour and quality. Constructing the distillery over the last 18 months has
been both a lifelong dream and one of the biggest challenges of my career. But
that time and effort has been well worth it – our first batch of new make
spirit is simply astonishing and unlike anything I’ve tasted to date. It is
incredibly fat and fruity and already packed full of the personality derived
from our traditional production processes. I’m looking forward to sharing it
and working with my team to shape it into a truly extraordinary Speyside whisky
over the years to come.”
The distillery’s visitor centre and shop opened earlier this
year, offering daily tours and tastings of Dunphail’s Dava Way whiskies. Over
time it is envisaged that the distillery’s tour programme will be expanded to
include both deep-dive warehouse experiences as well as visitor blending
sessions.
Posted by Steve Rush