Edinburgh Finally Gets A Distillery

Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, the world’s foremost producer of fine whisky – recent Japanese products notwithstanding – but it has no distillery to call its own…until now…with the planned 2016 opening of the $3 million Holyrood Distillery in the city. David Robertson, a former master blender at the Macallan Distillery, is the driving force behind the Holyrood Distillery, which has a planned initial production of 250,000 bottles of spirits per year. The last distillery to operate in Edinburgh was the Glen Sciennes Distillery in 1925.

The new Holyrood Distillery will be located in the Engine Shed building in downtown Edinburgh and is expected to begin distilling in 2016 with the first matured whisky products to emerge in eight to 12 years.