AW: New Distillery

[Davin de Kergommeaux]

Hi Ian and all,

Sorry to disagree, but some Signatory, Cadehead's and James MacArthur
bottlings of Pittyvaich have been excellent.

And, yes, we'd all like to see our mothballed favourites revived, but
we'll grow just as attached to whatever new distilleries come on line.

Davin


On 2/15/07, Ian Baker - Engagement Architect, BP <Ian.Baker at sun.com> wrote:
>
> Horst Luening wrote:
>
>  Why did Diageo not buy one of the mothballed distilleries still on the
> market after the split up of Seagram's and Allied?
>  I did wonder that as well - there are several options that would all have
> been quicker than starting from scratch. However, I guess that the economics
> of building next to an existing maltings might make a big difference. It
> would obviously save on transport costs, and there must be a good water
> supply already present if they're steeping barley. These days you might even
> want to try and make use of waste heat from the distillery in the maltings!
>
>  And there had been the Diageo test distillery Pittyvaich, which was torn
> down in the very last years. Wasn't that an option?
>
>  Probably not - it produced famously bad whisky (not that I've ever tried
> it) and couldn't even cut it as a Gin distillery! Of course, I'm sure that
> they intended it to produce decent whisky when it was built, it was just
> that things didn't quite work out that way. Presumably setting up any new
> distillery from scratch involves an element of risk, although perhaps
> there's a bit more science involved today that there was back in 1975!
>
>
>  Ian.
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