GlenDronach Single Malt Scotch Whisky

The Glendronach Distillery Company, founded in 1826 by James Allardice (Allardes) in partnership with a group of farmers sadly caught fire in 1837 which almost destroyed the distillery and finally went bankrupt in 1842. Through the years it has changed hands several times from government ownership to members of the William Grant family (in 1920 and who owned it for 40 years) to William Teachers & Sons (who added a second pair of still in 1967) to Pernod Ricard to the BenRiach Distilling Co (led by Billy Walker) and was purchased by Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey producer Brown Forman in 2016 along with its acquisition of The BenRiach Distilling Company. They had wooden wash backs and four stills which were coal fired until 2005, the last in Scotland to be heated in this way.

Today, ex-Sherry casks are the distillery’s signature style. Some are 100% Sherry matured, some start out in ex-Bourbon casks to pick up vanilla sweetness before being racked into ex-Sherry.