Whisky Magazine – August 2019

Issue 161 | Whisky Magazine 47

Distillery Experience Strathisla

I

magine, if you will, a postcard

with a distillery on it; you have

probably imagined beautiful

pagoda roofs, maybe the sight of

a copper still or two, a lawn with

a perfectly manicured garden in front of

it and the surrounding area covered in

bright green grass, trees and rolling hills.

You have just pictured Strathisla

Distillery, which is better known today

as the home of Chivas Regal and is

without doubt one of the most beautiful

distilleries in Scotland.

Before it was Strathisla however,

it was Milton Distillery, and it was

founded in 1786, making it one of the

oldest distilleries in Scotland, with

some saying that it is the oldest working

distillery in the country.

It was founded by George Taylor and

Alexander Milne, but changed hands

a number of times over the next few

decades. Due to the river beside the

distillery being named Strathisla, the

whisky produced there had locally been

known as Strathisla Distillery for many

years, when it was owned by William

Longmore, who had bought it from

WORDS GREG DILLON

We find out what’s going on at one of

Scotland’s prettiest distilleries

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