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Glenfarclas

Glenfarclas means "Valley of the green grass". The distillery is about a mile from the Spey and set on a cattle farm [near] Ben Rinnes from which the distillery's water flows. Barley is grown nearby. The distillery grew out of the farm [but did not really take off till it was bought by a neighbour, John Grant in 1865]. The site, variously known as Glenfarclas, or as Recherlich is not far from the village of Marypark in the Ballindalloch area.

The distillery is large and successful [and] is the business of a wholly private, family-owned company J & G Grant. John and George Grant are not connected (except perhaps distantly) to any of the other whisky-making Grants and regard theirs as the most truly independant of all Scottish distilleries.

The distillery was founded in 1836 and has been in the family since 1865. Its still-house is modern and its stills the biggest on Speyside. They are heated by gas flame. A substantial proportion of the whisky is aged in first-use sherry cask, some in re-fill sherry casks and some in plain wood.
© Michael Jackson 1994, cm

Ballindalloch, Banffshire, AB37 9BD
Tel: 01807-500257
Fax: 01807-500234

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