Glengoyne Distillery

Glen­goyne Dis­tillery is sit­u­ated at Dum­goyne, on the south-western edge of the Scot­tish High­lands, close to Loch Lomond, about three miles west of Strath­blane and to the north of Glas­gow. It is reputed to be the most beau­ti­ful dis­tillery in Scot­land. For over 150 years (1833) the dis­tillery has pro­duced High­land sin­gle malt whisky and the cur­rent dis­till­ing capac­ity is up to one mil­lion litres of alco­hol per annum. The Glen­goyne Vis­i­tor Cen­tre attracts over 35,000 vis­i­tors per annum, as well as enter­tain­ing sig­nif­i­cant num­bers of cor­po­rate parties.

The name Glen­goyne comes from ‘Glen­guin’ or ‘Glen of the Wild Geese’.

Unlike many other whiskies, the dis­tillery does not use peat smoke. It is claimed that this pro­duces a purer taste. The Glen­goyne port­fo­lio con­sists of the 10 year old, 12 year old Cask Strength, 17 year old, 21 year old and 28 year old, as well as lim­ited spe­cial Vin­tage bot­tlings of Glengoyne.

The pre­mium malt whisky mar­ket has shown sub­stan­tial growth in recent years and is the strongest grow­ing sec­tor of the Scotch Whisky indus­try. The prin­ci­pal mar­kets for the Glen­goyne sin­gle malt are the United King­dom, Scan­di­navia, France, Ger­many and the USA. Glen­goyne 17 year old was voted World’s Best Sin­gle High­land Malt in the “Best of the Best” whisky tast­ing, organ­ised by “Whisky Mag­a­zine”. 62 inde­pen­dent indus­try experts took part in this blind tasting.

In April 2003, Ian Macleod Dis­tillers Ltd. acquired Glen­goyne Dis­tillery, and the Glen­goyne Sin­gle Malt and Langs Blended Whisky brands. The acqui­si­tion of Glen­goyne Dis­tillery means Ian Macleod is now a fully inte­grated dis­tiller, blender and bottler.

Ian Macleod is based in Brox­burn, West Loth­ian and is an inde­pen­dent family-owned com­pany with blend­ing and bot­tling inter­ests. The com­pany was founded in 1939 by Leonard J Rus­sell and the cur­rent Man­ag­ing Direc­tor is his grand­son Leonard Russell.