Glen Scotia distillery

One of our favorite distilleries.

Glen Scotia.

Yes.

Bit of Glen Scotia.

Always.

And this is actually a story that comes from our good friend Ian McAllister, ex-distillery manager there.

Oh.

And one of the things that he talks about relates to a gentleman called Duncan Macallan.

Let's just jump right in because I want to get your take on some of these.

So first up, we're going to be drinking some Glen Scotia, 15 year old single malt scotch.

Right here.

Also, I'm just super excited about your lineup here because I happen to have been to every single one of these fine distilleries and producers that you're working with on the show.

There were like 28 distilleries in Campbelltown.

And now there are but three distilleries.

Three operating distilleries in Campbelltown, Glen Scotia, Springbank and Glengale.

It's by far now the smallest of Scotland's traditional whiskey regions, at least by numbers of distilleries.

Campbelltown's, for those of you who are down south and don't necessarily know the geography of Scotland, Campbelltown is one of the most westerly towns in Scotland.

It's right on... um one of the west coast peninsula pretty much as far as you can go um and if you're driving from glasgow it's like a three three and a half hour journey so when i'm down at our wonderful glen scotia distillery down there i just get this great wee flight down it's a logan air flight it's 30 minutes from from glasgow down to campbell town um allows me to be down there for half eight in the morning i get a five o'clock flight back it's just great um flew down this morning There were six people on the flight.

It's one of these, you know, twin otter, tiny wee things.

Loud as heck, your Apple Watch is beeping all the time to tell you the decibels are far too high and you're going to go deaf in 10 minutes.

Gary Mills, um, John Henry, super approachable on the stand, will converse with you for ages.

So yeah, Loch Lomond and the sister distillery Glen Scotia, um, two of my favorites definitely.

Okay, one more from you then we'll talk a bit of, um, how the summer's been.

So I've also got a blend here, John, and, uh, I guess there's a bit of a nod to somebody who has also been your channel.

And then Suntory will also be there pouring Yamazaki, Highland Park, 30 and 40 year olds, Loch Lomond.

has 33 year old little mill and a Glen Scotia, um, Irish distillers pouring Middleton.

And yeah, so the focus really for these seminars is these ultra age kind of rarefied whiskeys.

You're not going to see them on the floor, uh, for the grand tasting.

And you think from 1904 to 1922, it goes from 21 distilleries to seven.

And then after 25, there's three, Rear Clack and Springbank and Glen Scotia.

All the Glen Scotia is really silent.

It's not working.

So it's really sort of two and a half distilleries.

Because, you know, Campbelltown is so important to the whiskey story, but it's weird how, you know, like there's distilleries that we love, but like there are a lot of those distilleries that would

open and close, open and close.

Glen Scotia's one, you know, there's other

in the messaging

of our WhatsApp, this is the face-off, Glen Scotia versus Noctu, the ANOC, that I received a message from Adam saying, Rob is evil.

So with that, Adam, I'm going to start with you.

We have number two, Glen Scotia, and number seven, Noctu Distillery, which, of course, as we all know, produces the ANOC.

Go ahead.

It's not fair.

what

we're looking that kind of argument i love it there you go this boy's a marketing man right it's political messaging