From Issue One of Hidden Scotland Magazine

The Story of Springbank

Scotland’s oldest independent family-owned distillery, and how it makes its whisky.

Printed in Issue One of Hidden Scotland Magazine, Autumn and Winter 2020.

Springbank is the oldest independent family-owned distillery in the country, and the only Scottish distillery to complete 100% of the production process on site with human involvement at each and every stage.

‘Whisky,’ according to George Bernard Shaw, ‘is liquid sunshine.’ In a country that’s famously short of sunny weather, it’s perhaps unsurprising that Scotland has 120 active distilleries, of which Springbank is one of the most highly reputed.

Located on the shores of Campbeltown Loch on the southern flank of the Mull of Kintyre, the Springbank Distillery is one of only three remaining in the town once dubbed ‘the whisky capital of the world’. The oldest independent family run distillery in Scotland, now in its fifth generation of ownership, Springbank is the only producer of malt whisky in the country where the entire production process is completed on-site from malting to bottling.