Adnams Copper House Distillery has been producing handcrafted spirits for three years. After several years of maturing in new French and American oak barrels, its…
Adnams Copper House Distillery has been producing handcrafted spirits for three years. After several years of maturing in new French and American oak barrels, its…
In recent years the Speyside distillery’s heavy, dark whisky was reserved for blending and has only been made available in very limited numbers as a single malt, but the Dufftown site will now see capacity doubled from 3.8m to 7.6m litres in a project costing £18m. From mid-2014 the distillery will be renewed and expanded, while the re-branded single-malt will be made available in global markets.
William Grant & Sons’ Glenfiddich topped the list with 1.0 million 9-litre cases, but Pernod Ricard’s flagship malt The Glenlivet ran it close with volumes of 0.8m cases. The Glenlivet and Edrington’s The Macallan are expected to reach 1.0m cases mark in 2013.
Bacardi, which grew 1% from 2011 to 2012 and has recorded flat average growth over the last five years, sold 19.8m cases last year, with Tanduay second in the list of top selling rums with 19.6m cases sales. McDowell’s No.1 Celebration, which grew 14% from 15.6 million cases to 17.8m cases, completes the top-three list of best selling rums. Captain Morgan was ranked the fourth…
Pirassununga 51, which declined 1% from 2011 to 2012, sold 18.5m 9-litre cases last year, with Tatuzinho’s Velho Barreiro second in the list of top selling cachacas with 9.2m cases sales. Ypioca, now owned by Diageo, was the third biggest cachaça with sales of 6.5m cases in 2012.
Subject to receiving planning consent, work on the parkland estate project will begin in autumn 2014 and is due to be completed in spring 2017. Macallan’s sales are expected to exceed one million cases this year, and while future growth is expected, Edrington’s Public Affairs Director Gerry O’Donnell told Drinks International that it was too early in the planning process to disclose what the capacity…
Linkwood and Mannochmore malt whisky distilleries near Elgin have both undergone expansion in the past year as part of the company’s £1billion investment programme to expand Scotch whisky production capacity in Scotland. The investment by Diageo at these two distilleries totals around £14million. Both distilleries are now operational and the expansion work has been completed. Mike Jappy, Diageo’s investment project director, said: “Both Linkwood and…
Mark Gamble, who has an engineering background and built his copper still ‘Gerard’ from scratch said: “Being independent craft distillers, we have the flexibility to experiment with new products and different flavour profiles as well as alcohol levels. After discussions with friends working in the drinks industry we saw there was a gap in the market for a stronger gin but not at an over-proof…
