A little piece of
history
This coastal
distillery was built in 1871 by Alexander Wilson & Co. It was kept in the
family until the company went bankrupt in 1936. Remarkably, the Buckie Town
Council decided to buy the distillery and family home for the neat sum of
1,600 GBP. It must not have felt right that a government body finds itself
suddenly in the liquor business, so in 1938 Inchgower was sold to Arthur Bell
& Sons for 3,000 GBP, the community of Buckie making a considerable profit
of 1,400 GBP in only two years (in today’s money that would be around 122,000
GBP).
That might have helped
the decision to sell too!
In 1985 Guinness took
over and via a merger with DCL, eventually Bell’s would become part of Diageo’s
portfolio. Inchgower still is the heart of Bell’s blended Scotch.
The distillery is only
a 15 minute car drive from the beautiful old harbour at Portsoy, dating from
1692.
Water source
Springs in the Menduff Hills
Malt source
Burghead Maltings
Capacity
3.2million litres of
alcohol per annum
Location
Buckie, Banffshire
