AW: New Distillery

[Horst Luening]

Hello Arthur!

Well argued.

I am a little splitted in this manner. The remaining Rosebank Single Malt
Whiskies are rising in selling prices and the success of the annual releases
of Port Ellen show, that revitalizing old distilleries could be done
successfully from our Single Malt point of view. But it is not all about
single malt.

To the others:

If you read the press release carefully, then you recognize, that most of
the money goes to other operations than the malt whisky distillery. Bottling
facilities, Grain distilling, etc.

Why did Diageo not buy one of the mothballed distilleries still on the
market after the split up of Seagram's and Allied? They would have gone into
operation with less effort. And there had been the Diageo test distillery
Pittivaich, which was torn down in the very last years. Wasn't that an
option?

>From my private point of view it is all about centralization and cost
savings. A second point will be the particular taste of the produced malt.
Diageo seems to be good in designing the taste of the final malt by
influencing the timing and temperature of the distillation process of
particular distilleries. I guess, that the planned distillery will perfectly
fit into the portfolio of the malts required for the big blends.

And transportation of barley and whisky to and from the distillery will be
optimally managed.

This region between Forres and Elgin seems to develop into a major
distilling and malting region. The new built Glenburgie Distillery
(Ex-Allied now Pernod Ricard) raised the capacity in that region
significantly.

China is calling ...

Regards,
Horst


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Betreff: Re: New Distillery


This response seems a little harsh and backward-looking.

This is a fantastic piece of news for whisky fans and to instantly find a
negative is strange.  Yes, people working at a company called Diageo took
the decision to shut some great distilleries when there was a massive
surplus of malt in the 1980’s.   Now different people working at a company
called Diageo are responding to global demand and opening another.  This
is a sizeable investment in Scotland, and surely very exciting.

Brora, Rosebank and the others are gone - let’s move on and look to the
future.



Arthur Motley
www.royalmilewhiskies.com



> Hitting the nail on the head, Thomas! As someone who felt sad walking
> among the ruins of Port Ellen, if now Roseisle, why not have kept
> Rosebank ....
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> "requirement for additional production capacity"
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> Explain that to someone who mourns the closures of North Port, Port
> Ellen, and most notably Rosebank. :-(
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> 2007/2/15, Ian Baker - Engagement Architect, BP <Ian.Baker at sun.com>:
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> Diageo would like to build a new Speyside distillery, close to the
> existing Roseisle maltings between Elgin and Forres. Full details can be
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> http://www.diageo.com/en-row/NewsAndMedia/PressReleases/2007/PressReleas
> e15FebScotland.htm
> If all goes to plan it will be completed by 2009.
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