Glenglassaugh Single Malt Distillery

The Glenglassaugh Distillery is situated on the Banffshire coast in the North-East of Scotland, close to the small village of Portsoy. The distillery was built in 1875 by local businessmen to satisfy the growing global demand for Scotch Malt Whisky and the site was chosen due to its close proximity to a high quality water supply and easy access to the nearby barley fields.

After a visit in the late 1880s, the highly-regarded Victorian commentator Alfred Barnard described Glenglassaugh as “too well known to need any praise.”

In 1986 the then owners mothballed Glenglassaugh as part of wider cutbacks in production and the distillery has remained silent thereafter. In 2008 The Scaent Group of Amsterdam purchased the distillery and have invested more than £1m to recommence operations and to reintroduce to discerning customers the distinctive and high quality attributes of The Glenglassaugh Single Malt Scotch Whisky

The distillery offers two levels of tour, which need to be booked beforehand.

Behind the scenes tour: Once per week, including a tutored tasting of both spirit drinks as well as our 21 year old and 30 year old single malt scotch whiskies. Cost £25

The Spirit Drink tour: The tour still includes all the areas normally seen at a distillery including the production areas and the warehousing. It finishes with a taste of “The spirit drink that dare not speak its name” or “The spirit drink that blushes to speak its name”, our latest 2 products. The price of this tour is correspondingly less at only £5.00 and to add character and more knowledge of the plant you could be taken around by other members of the team including Alan, Wayne or Neil from the production area.