Actor Sam Heughan, co-founder of The Sassenach Spirits, has acquired Artful Distillery within the south of Scotland and rebranded it as Galloway Distillery.
The distillery would be the non secular dwelling of Heughan’s The Sassenach model, which he co-founded in 2021 together with his enterprise accomplice, Alexander Norouzi.
The distillery is the place the model’s The Sassenach Wild Scottish Gin was developed and produced. The model’s The Sassenach blended Scotch whisky will now even be produced on the distillery.
Artful Distillery additionally distilled the Hills & Harbour line of manufacturers, which incorporates Hills & Harbour Gin, Hills & Harbour Distilled Gin Cocktail, and 24 Seven Vodka.
The Artful title has disappeared following Heughan and Norouzi’s acquisition, however its Hills & Harbour spirits will proceed to be produced at Galloway Distillery. They are going to be built-in into the Galloway Distillery home of manufacturers, sitting alongside the flagship Sassenach spirits.
The distillery will play host to the primary launch of The Sassenach Most interesting Scottish Vodka, slated for November, and also will produce The Galloway Scotch Whisky, with a manufacturing functionality of 200,000 litres of pure alcohol every year.
At the moment, it’s producing a most of 15,000 litres of pure alcohol for a particular restricted quantity of single malt new make. The distillery additionally has an in-house bottling room, able to bottling 175,000 bottles a 12 months.
The distillery marks a return to roots for the Outlander star, who hails from Galloway in Scotland.
Heughan mentioned opening the distillery has been a private dream: “Galloway is an inspirational place. It has distinctive heritage, folklore, landscapes and folks. [It’s] very accessible but stays an undiscovered and historical land.
“I created the Galloway Distillery to return to my roots and provides again to the land the place I used to be born. My function is to shine a light-weight on this unsung nook of Scotland that has a lot to supply.
“This represents a real homecoming and new chapter, within the pursuit of positive Scottish spirits from this undiscovered and distinctive land, within the south of Scotland.”
Heughan and the staff have plans to considerably develop and develop the customer providing over the following 12 months, with growth plans permitted for an prolonged section.
Galloway Distillery can even endeavour to function sustainably and is powered by inexperienced power, with native wind used for cooling throughout the distilling course of.
Co-founder Norouzi added: “The Galloway area is one in all Scotland’s undisputed gems that blends pure magnificence, wealthy historical past, and heat hospitality.
“For guests, it affords the proper begin to discover the gateway to Scotland.”
Excursions of the distillery might be booked by way of the Galloway Distillery web site. They run 5 days per week with three excursions per day. The utmost capability per tour is 16 individuals, with tour house of 12,500 visitors yearly.
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