It started when Ian & Paddy, two whisky fanatics from Edinburgh, started ‘experimenting’ with whisky production in their back garden. They discovered significant opportunities to do something different and exciting with the spirit that they loved. An ambition to build a distillery was born. 

To us, the magic of a great whisky is its complexity; the ability of a single glass of spirit to taste of many things at once.

It’s easy to identify a couple of flavours in a whisky - cereal and vanilla, for example. But a truly great whisky can be extraordinarily complex, with many different aromas and flavours contained in a single glass.

We want to create an incredibly complex, balanced spirit; delicious, beguiling flavours held in perfect harmony.

We’re seeking to achieve this by unpicking every element of the production process, identifying what it contributes to our spirit and asking ourselves how can it be done better.

There is no final destination to this pursuit, and so our whisky will never stand still - it will never achieve consistency. Each year’s production will reflect the people who made it, the changing character of the place in which it’s made, of what it’s made from and where it’s aged; the challenges and discoveries of its vintage. 

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