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Owner:  

barmetro

Email- barmetro@libero.it

Insertion Date: 03/07/2010


Distillery

CRAIGDUFF DISTILLERY PROFILE

Type

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.

Notes

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.