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Glen Ord Distillery
IV6 7UJ
Muir Of Ord
Ross-shire
Scotland
Phone: +44 (0) 1463 872004
Fax: +44 (0) 1463 872008
Website
Contact Person: Eric Walker
As you drive North from Inverness you enter the Northern Highland region, with its loch-fed mountain streams, and it's from the heart of this promising country that Glen Ord comes. The first thing you see is the modern factory-style maltings of Glen Ord Maltings. Behind it is the handsome distillery with twin pagodas, cream buildings and old stone warehouses of Glen Ord, named after couthy town Muir of Ord ("the moor by the hill") nearby. Glen Ord has produced a richly more-ish malt whisky, once memorably described as "perilously drinkable", since the first year of Queen Victoria's reign.
At Glen Ord the malting tradition have lived on, today
the roaring sound and peat smoke of the ventilated kiln fires from the drum
maltings can be be heard and smelled near the distillery, providing many of the
current owner Diageo’s distilleries with malt. Glen Ord has won several awards,
it’s included in Diageo’s ‘Hidden Malts’ and Special Releases series and the
Dewar’s blend. Independent bottlings are rare and older bottlings can be found
under names as 'Glenordie', 'Ordie' or 'Ord'. The 16 year old 'Manager's Dram' is
popular with collectors.
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Information about the tour at Glen Ord Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery
Tour in short: A tour with a nice blend of modernity and tradition. Good beginners tour with a introduction to malting, fermenting and distilling. Some history and humour. . Nice visitor centre featuring a window to the warehouse.
£10 Deluxe tour recommended with tastings of Classic Malts and other rare malts.
Information for visiting Glen Ord Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery
Travel Directions: Glen Ord Distillery are just north of Muir of Ord about 18 miles north of Inverness. Take the A832 road from Muir of Ord. After 3/4 of a mile you see the towering Glen Ord Maltings at the junction of the A832 and the Altgowrie road. The distillery is just behind the maltings.
Opening Hours: Visitor centre open almost all year. April to June, Monday to Friday, 10am - 5pm. July to September, Monday to Friday, 10am - 5pm. Sat / Sun (07/07 - 30/09), 12 noon - 4pm.
Tour Times: Last tour one hour before closing. Every ten minutes when busy.
Price admission: £4.00. Children are free. This charge includes a discount voucher which is redeemable in the distillery shop towards the purchase of a 70cl bottle of single malt whisky. Please note that children under 8 years old are not admitted to the production areas. Admission is free to all Friends of the Classic Malts.
Shop: Glen Ord and Classic Malts range.
Restaurant: No. Go to Beauly or Muir of Ord.
Parking: Free parking.
Groups: By appointement.
Photography in distillery: No.
Foreign visitor support: Guides speak French, German and Dutch. Leaflets in main languages.
Disabled access: Ok but for stillhouse.
Off season opening hours: January to March, Monday to Friday, 11am - 3pm. October to December, Monday to Friday, 11am - 3pm. Closed between Christmas and New Year.
Things of interest regarding Glen Ord Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery
Restaurants nearby: Try the local fish and chips.
Things of interest:
Bed & breakfast and hotels nearby:
The whisky from Glen Ord Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery
Tasting notes: Glen Ord (12 yo 43%) Fruity and malty,
complex and dry.
The production at Glen Ord Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery
Malt and malting: Saladin box system on site, slightly peated.
Distilling and the stills: Washstills: 3,
18.000 litres. Spiritstills: 3, 15.500
litres.
Watersource: White Burn (Alt Fionnadh in
Gaelic) fed by the mountain lakes Loch nan Eun and Loch
nam Bonnach.
Barrels and casks: Bourbon and sherry.
Bond and Warehousing: Traditional dunnage warehouses on site.
Mashing and fermentation: Mashtun: Cast iron. Washbacks: 8, Pine.
Distillery manager: Eric Walker.
Owner: Diageo
The history of Glen Ord Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery
History of the distillery: As early as the 16th
century milling and brewing took place on the site of the distillery, situated
on the peninsula “Black Isle” near Muir of Ord (which means moor next to the
hill) north of Inverness. The Mackenzie clan used
the same well, Allt Fionnaidh burn, later tapped by his kinsman, Alexander
Mackenzie, in 1878 when he re-built the distillery, founded in 1838 by Robert
Johnston, after a fire. Several other stills were licensed near the distillery,
turning all the barley in the area into fast cash. Export went out to Singapore, South Africa and other British
colonies. Back in 1896 the distillery was bought by the blending company James
Watson & Co who sold the blend 'Watson's No. 10'. In 1923 John Dewar &
Sons changed the name to ‘Glen Ord’. From 1930, Scottish Malt Distillers, continuously
improved the distillery with electricity and additional stills.
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