New Distillery for Orkney?

[STUDOGG37]

Heard this story from a friend who lives in Orkney.


"The company behind plans to establish a new distillery in Orkney have announced the appointment of the former manager of the Highland Park Distillery, Jim Robertson, as a senior advisor.

Grythyttan Whisky, currently based in Sweden, is moving its production to Orkney in 2014. Benny Borgh, managing director of Longship Distillery Limited told The Orcadian last month that the company is owned by the Swedish company Grythyttan Whisky AB, a PLC with more than 1,600 "whisky-loving shareholders"? in Scandinavia.

Mr Borgh announced the appointment of Mr Robertson. He said: "Mr Jim Robertson has been appointed senior advisor for Longship Distillery Ltd, Orkney. Jim's long and fruitful experiences in combination with his excellent contacts in the whisky business will be of great value for the shareholders of both Grythyttan and Longship."?

Mr Borgh earlier said that the company plans to ship their existing distillery equipment to Orkney in mid-January.

However, at this stage he would not reveal where the operation would be based."
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[Brummie]

Interesting, there is always room for another distillery.

I have never come across Grythyttan Whisky but i see on their website that they say:

[William]

I havent come across any Grythyttan single malt whisky so i cant comment on it although it will all still be quite young as it was only established in 2007. The craft distillery appears to have produced various styles of whisky in its short life both peated and unpeated and with various cask finishes.

The Swedish company Grythyttan turned to its thousands of investors to get the £1 million needed to build a distillery on Orkney, it appears they have managed to raise this money.

A bit more info from the Grythyttan Whisky website about the Longship Distillery Ltd:

[TheWM]

I wonder what the SWA would think about this. As I've said before, it would appear that there is nothing preventing anyone rolling up to Scotland and making whisky and labelling it so. This would seem to prove the point.

[chrisg]

I wonder what the Longship Distillery output capacity will be?

[Quaich1]

[Blackadder]

I wonder what the whisky loving share holders get out of it, are they paid dividends in whisky.

[albo]

Not a bad way to receive a dividend

[James T]

Interesting build a distillery then move it to Scotland