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CRAIGDUFF DISTILLERY PROFILE |
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Craigduff Is A Bit of A Strange Story. The Whisky Is An Experimental Peated Speyside Single Malt Produced For Chivas Brothers In The 1970s, But Never Officially Released As A Single Malt. A Couple |
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of Bottlings Were Released By Signatory A Few Years Ago And The Company Believed The Malt To Have Been Made At The Strathisla Distillery.However Signatory Later Claimed That The Whisky Had Actually |
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Been Produced At Fellow Seagram Stablemate Glen Keith, A Claim Denied By Chivas, Who Continue To Insist That It Was Made At Strathisla. Another Interesting Feature of Craigduff Is That The Whisky |
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Was, In A Sense, 'Double-Peated' Not Only Was Peated Malt Used In Production, But Some of The Water Used Was Peated Water Made In Stornaway And Run Through The Still To Concentrate Its Peatiness |
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Again. This Water Was Added To The Wash Before Distillation. A curious collector's item. At Time of Bottling Our First Cask of Craigduff 1973, We Believed, Based On Information Available To Us, |
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That Craigduff Was A Peated Malt From Strathisla Distillery.Based On Our Own More Detailed Research, We Have Now Established That Craigduff was, In Fact, Distilled At The Nearby Glen Keith Distillery. |
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We Apologise For Any Inconvenience That Our Wrongly Associating Craigduff With Strathisla Distillery Caused.To Reflect The Fact That Craigduff Was Actually Made At Glen Keith. |
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