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#75.3 Return to Orkney
TL; DR: Second distillery of the day was the Orkney Distillery, right on the Kirkwall waterfront. Production was paused for an upgrade, but the distiller Steven walked us through the entire process. Then a generous tasting with Tony, a proper industry veteran: newmake, a “solera” cask, two blended malts, and an undisclosed Orkney 14…
#75.2 Return to Orkney
TL; DR: Back on Orkney, and two new whisky distilleries have opened since our first visit in 2022. First up: Deerness, out on a windswept peninsula east of Kirkwall. Stuart, former engineer and co-founder, told us about the history of the family-run distillery and their ambitious plans for on-site malting and off-grid biogas. The…
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