Bladnoch Distillery is a Single malt Scotch whiskySingle Malt Scotch is a type of single malt whisky, distilled by a single distillery in a pot still, using malted barley as the only grain ingredient in Scotland. As with any Scotch whisky, a Single Malt Scotch must be distilled in Scotland and matured in oak casks in Scotland for at least three years (most single malts are matured for longer). * "Malt" indicates that the whisky is distilled from a single "malted" grain. Not all grains can be malted - (rye is another grain which can be malted) - but in the case ...Single malt Scotch whisky distillery in south west ScotlandScotland is a nation in northwest Europe and one of the four constituent countriesThe website of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom refers to "Countries within a country", stating "The United Kingdom is made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland". of the United Kingdom. It occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shares a land border to the south with England. ...Scotland. It is one of only three remaining Lowland distilleriesLowland Single Malts are single malt whiskies distilled in the lowlands of Scotland. The region, once having a number of distilleries, now only has three operating distilleries: Glenkinchie, Auchentoshan, and Bladnoch. At least six other lowland single malts are still available, but no longer distilled, Rosebank, Kinclaith, St. Magdalene, Ladyburn, ...Lowland distilleries, and is located at Bladnoch, near Wigtown:It is not to be confused with the town in north-west England called Wigton Wigtown (Gd: Baile na h-Ùige) is a town and former royal burgh in the Machars of Galloway in the south west of Scotland, south of Newton Stewart and east of Stranraer. It has a population of about 1,000. It is well known today as Scotland's National Book Town and is home to a wealth of second-hand book shops. Wigtown gives its name to the traditional county of Wigtownshire, ...Wigtown, Dumfries and GallowayDumfries and Galloway (Dùn Phris agus an Gall-Ghaidhealaibh in Gaelic) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. To the north, it borders onto South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire; in the east the Borders; and to the south the county of Cumbria in England. It lies to the north of the Solway Firth and to the east of the Irish Sea. The region is well-known ...Dumfries and Galloway. The distillery is situated on the banks of the River BladnochThe Bladnoch is a river in the Machars of Galloway in southwest Scotland. One of the earliest descriptions of it is given by Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw and Sir David Dunbar in an appendix to Andrew Symson's work A Large Description of Galloway written in the seventeenth century. In this they state that "Blaidzenoch which floweth from the mountnous parts of Penningham, and runs from the north to the south. It runneth through Lochmabary, (wherein there is ane little isle, with ane house upon it) and by ...River Bladnoch, and is the most southerly whisky distillery in Scotland.
