Glen garioch

The Silent Spring

When war broke out in 1939, output was curtailed by two thirds, with production ceasing altogether in 1943/44. Post-war grain rationing continued to limit production, and it wasn’t until 1960/61 that Glen Garioch and other distilleries were able to meet the demand for mature whisky at the pre-war level.

Full production didn’t last long, however: in 1968 Glen Garioch was mothballed on account of «chronic water shortages and limited production potential» and two years later SMD sold it to the Glasgow whisky broker (and owner of Bowmore Distillery), Stanley P Morrison for £150,000.

Morrison resumed production at the same level as previously, and in 1972 appointed Joe Hughes as manager, with a brief to find another water source. With the help of Ian ‘Digger’ Grant (the father of Glen Garioch’s current manager), a spring was discovered on a neighbouring farm. ‘The Silent Spring of Coutens Farm’ could neither be seen nor heard, but it flowed in sufficient abundance to increase production ten-fold.

Morrison extended the plant from two to three stills in 1972, and to four in 1973, when the distillery was largely rebuilt, and Glen Garioch was released as a single malt for the first time.

История

Первые следы винокурни в Глен-Гариохе относятся к 1794 году, когда Джон Мэнсон (1762-1838) и его брат Александр (1770-1847) начали строительство винокурни и пивоварни на месте старого кожевенного завода с водопроводом. с холмов Перкок.

В 1798 году Томас Симпсон завершил покупку винокурни и пивоварни. Год обычно используется для фундамента из ликероводочных остатков в 1797 году: это редкий Glen Garioch спиртзавод основан в XVIII — го века , до сих пор активно.

В 1827 году новыми владельцами стали Ingram, Lamb & Co и расширили здания.

Винокурня была куплена Джоном Мэнсоном-младшим, владельцем и сыном основателя Strathmeldrum Distillery в 1837 году. В 1856 году железная дорога между Инверури и Олд Мелдрам положила конец транспортировке бочек виски на телеге с быками в Абердин .

JG Thomson & Co из Leith приобрела винокурню в 1884 году. Два года спустя Уильям Сандерсон взял под свой контроль 50% компании: виски с винокурни действительно был важным ингредиентом смеси VAT69, которую запустил У. Сандерсон. В то время на винокурне работало 12 человек под руководством Джимми Шанда, которые открыли свиноферму на территории винокурни. В 1921 году Уильям Марк Сандерсон, сын Уильяма Сандерсона, вместе с несколькими инвесторами основал компанию Glengarioch Distillery Co Ltd, чтобы получить полный контроль над винокурней.

В 1933 году Sanderson & Son объединилась с Booth’s Distilleries Ltd , производителем джина . Эта новая компания была приобретена в 1937 году Scotch Malt Distillers , дочерней компанией DCL ( Distillers Company Limited , которая будет частью группы Diageo ).

Как и большинство шотландских винокурен, винокурня Glen Garioch была закрыта во время Второй мировой войны для экономии солода. Некоторые здания затем использовались армией как общежития.

В 1968 году SMD закрыла винокурню официально из-за нехватки воды. В 1970 году винокурня была куплена Стэнли П. Моррисоном за 150 000 фунтов стерлингов. Производство виски возобновилось в 1973 году, когда виски производили из копченого на торфе солода.

К 1972 году винокурня стала первой в Шотландии, которая отапливала перегонные кубы газом. Виски Glen Garioch, наконец, продается как односолодовый, когда он ранее входил в состав смесей Bell’s , Grant’s , Standfast и Drambuie (Drambuie — это лента на основе ликера виски). На ферме Кутенс используется новый источник.

В 1978 году количество перегонных кубов увеличилось с 2 до 3, и была построена небольшая приемная для посетителей. Завод модернизируется: проект по рекуперации тепла для обогрева теплиц придает заводу известность. Этот проект будет закрыт в 1993 году.

Японская компания Suntory приобретает Morrison Bowmore Distillers Ltd вИюль 1994. Эти новые владельцы закрыли завод в 1995 году и вновь открыли его в 1997 году.

Примечание: история, представленная на официальном сайте, была привилегированной, если не соответствовала истории maltmadness.com. Остается прояснить много неясностей относительно истории этого винокурни …

The Greenhouse Project

During the 1970s, fuel costs escalated – rising from 9% of production costs to 16% by 1980. Morrison installed an innovative waste-heat recovery system at Glen Garioch, which not only supplied heat for the malt kiln and pre-heated the wash, but also warmed an acre of glasshouses and another acre of poly-tunnels, saving around £90,000 per annum.

The Glen Garioch Greenhouse Project was the brainchild of Morrison’s production director, Alistair F Ross and the ever-ingenious Joe Hughes, advised by Morrison’s Chief Engineer, Harry Cockburn, and supported by Jim McColl, presenter of BBC Scotland’s popular Beechgrove Garden series.

With planning permission granted in 1977, the distillery soon became famous for its tomatoes, peppers, aubergines and cucumbers. The project went on to be featured on the BBC’s Tomorrow’s World programme, and in 1982 was chosen to be part of the British Pavilion at the World Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1988, a mini-distillery and glasshouse was displayed at the Glasgow Garden Festival, visited by the Prince and Princess of Wales, and by the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.

The project was discontinued in 1993.

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Glen Garioch History

Although the date of Glen Garioch is officially given as being 1797, there are claims (still to be substantiated) of it producing legally at an even earlier date, a claim which if proved true would make this Oldmeldrum plant the oldest distillery in Scotland. It would make sense that there was whisky being distilled in The Garioch – a fertile part of Aberdeenshire long given over to arable farming.

Whatever the date of its formation, Glen Garioch survived when other eastern distilleries foundered. This was initially thanks to its ownership by blenders J.F. Thompson of Leith in 1884. William Sanderson of Vat 69 (at that point one of the top-selling blends in the world) became a partner in 1886 and took full control in 1908.

Sanderson owned it outright until 1935 when it joined with Booth’s and then two years later, following a merger, into DCL. It continued in production until 1968 when it and Brora were considered as the sites which could produce heavily-peated whisky for DCL’s blending requirements. Glen Garioch had always struggled for water and it was felt that this would impact on an increase in production. DCL’s response to this was to close Glen Garioch, and re-open Brora.

Two years later, the Glasgow broker Stanley P. Morrison bought it. The firm brought in a local water diviner who found a new source and production not only restarted, but increased.

Morrison’s brought in the same design of heat recovery system it had installed at Bowmore. In that distillery waster heat warmed the water of the town’s swimming pool. At Glen Garioch, it heated two acres of greenhouses where tomatoes were grown.

Heavily peated malt was produced until 1995 when the distillery closed once more. Thankfully it opened again two years later, though by now the peat had gone (as had the distillery’s own maltings) as a different style was being made.

Glen Garioch distillery

Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Although the layout inside Glen Garioch is typical of a centuries-old site, with small rooms being added on and converted into use as production increased, it contains relatively modern kit. The mash tun, squeezed inside a tiny chamber, has a lauter system; the washbacks, in another tight room nearby, are stainless steel. The stillhouse with a panoramic window facing the road has three stills, but only one pair is used.

Ferments are short, giving a deep cereal and spice note to the new spirit which also has a distinctive waxy, tallow-like, character. When mature, the heaviness changes into a thick, fat texture, allowing honeyed fruits and heather to emerge.

A Curious Name

Curiously, the distillery was originally named ‘Glengarioch’, but its single malt scotch whisky has long been known as ‘Glen Garioch’. At the same time, ‘Oldmeldrum’ was formerly ‘Old Meldrum’. Why this should be is still a mystery.

Old Meldrum itself derives from the Gaelic Meal-drum, meaning ‘a ridge’, which describes its situation perfectly, overlooking the rolling country of the Garioch.

The distillery, which originally incorporated a brewery as well, stands on the very edge of the town, with a narrow lane connecting it to the main road between Aberdeen and Banff. The Manson brothers who founded it came from farming stock, and were respected members of the local community. Other members of the family were merchants and tanners, and an uncle had been a vintner in Oldmeldrum.

In 1837, the year before co-founder John Manson died, they were joined by his son, also named John Manson (1804-1877). He took over the business, and as well as operating the distillery, opened a snuff mill, maintained the family’s interest in tanning and acquired farms in the neighbourhood. He finished life as a petty landowner, with the proud title ‘Laird of Fingask’, derived from his main farm, and married Elizabeth Blaikie, a cousin of the explorer, David Livingstone.

The Pope’s Telephone Number

Glen Garioch Distillery remained in the ownership of ‘John Manson & Company’ until 1884, when it was bought by a firm of wine and spirits merchants from Leith, JG Thomson & Co. Two years later, they were joined by fellow Leither, William Sanderson, who had recently been elected managing director of ‘the largest distillery in the world’ – North British, in Edinburgh.

William Sanderson was one of the most influential figures in the whisky trade. The son of a wine and spirits merchant, he set up his own business in 1863 and, in July 1882, launched VAT 69 (according to tradition, he selected this cask from among 100 others, with a group of friends). Glen Garioch became the heart malt for this famous blend, contributing to the accolade bestowed by The War Office Times and Naval Review as «the finest whisky sold at the present time».

Sanderson seems to have been keen on abbreviations: as well as VAT 69, he offered A.M. and P.M. (for drinking before and after lunch), S.V.G. (‘Specially Vatted Glen Garioch’), O.B.G. (‘Old Best Glen Garioch’), I.M. (with a preponderance of Islay Malt), O.M. (Oldest Malts), VAT 88 (for a short time) and VAT 68 (for France, the same blend as VAT 69).

Trading in Hard Times

On his death in 1908, William Sanderson was succeeded by his son, William Mark, who had been a partner in the firm since 1892, and immediately turned his attention to overseas markets – Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium and France – and after March 1908, the USA.

This was a wise move, since the duty on Scotch in the home market was increased the following year and doubled again in 1919; by 1920 it was five times what it had been in 1914, and consumption in the UK dropped by half. To make matters worse, the United States prohibited the production and sale of liquor in 1920, while other export markets imposed tariffs and restrictions on imported spirits.

While many other whisky companies amalgamated, William Mark Sanderson took the view that Prohibition wouldn’t last. In 1922 he bought the entire shares of Glen Garioch Distillery and a warehouse in Leith. But matters didn’t improve. William Mark died in 1929, at the height of the Great Depression. Following the disastrous season 1932/33, when only 15 malt distilleries were in production compared to 94 two years earlier, William Mark’s son, Kenneth, sold the family company to Booth’s Distilleries Ltd.

Prohibition was repealed just eight months later.

Mosquito manson

John and Elizabeth’s second son, Patrick (1844-1922) was the ﬁrst person to demonstrate conclusively the connection between mosquitos and diseases such as elephantiasis, and to postulate the origins of malaria, earning for himself the soubriquet ‘Mosquito Manson’. One of his tests «involved locking a healthy volunteer, his son, in a room of mosquitos known to carry malaria and proving the volunteer became infected once bitten»!

Soon after graduating from Aberdeen University he was appointed to a post in Formosa (now Taiwan) where he ﬁrst became interested in the connection between mosquitos and malaria. After many years of painstaking research he was able to prove that the insects transmitted the disease – a revolutionary theory which would have profound broader implications for medicine.

On his death in 1922, a memorial service was held in St. Paul’s Cathedral, at which Winston Churchill, delivered a tribute. He was buried next day in Allenvale Cemetery, Aberdeen. A fellow medical graduate, Sir Alexander Ogston, described him as: «Probably the most distinguished man of science who ever graduated in medicine in the University of Aberdeen».

История

Место, выбранное Джоном и Александром Мэнсоном для их завода по производству солодового виски в 1797 году, было очевидным. Oldmeldrum в знаменитой «Долине Гариоха» был назван «Зернохранилище Абердиншира», известный производством лучшего ячменя во всей Шотландии.

Винокурня, которая первоначально включала пивоварню и кожевенный завод, стоит на самом краю городка Олдмельдрам в Абердиншире. Гариох — произносится как «Гири» — это участок богато плодородной земли, площадью около 150 квадратных миль (390 км).2) в степени. Это место известно как «зернохранилище Абердиншира», где ячмень и хрустальные источники были в изобилии уже более тысячи лет, поэтому неудивительно, что винокурня Glen Garioch была основана еще в 1794 году — одна из старейших действующих винокурен в Шотландии. .

В 1968 году производство Glen Garioch было приостановлено из-за «хронической нехватки воды»; однако в 1972 году был назначен управляющий, которому было поручено найти другой источник воды. На соседней ферме обнаружен родник. Его стали называть «Тихая весна», потому что его нельзя было ни увидеть, ни услышать.

Компания Glen Garioch, возглавляющая фонд 1797 Founders Reserve, будет периодически выпускать отобранные вручную отдельные партии акций. Первыми из них будут Glen Garioch 1990 Vintage и Glen Garioch 1978 Vintage, которые будут выпущены как «единичные партии», которые войдут в список 1797 Founders Reserve.

Он управляется компанией Morrison Bowmore Distillers, принадлежащей японской компании. Suntory.