The world-famous Elgin firm of Gordon & MacPhail is known for espousing the traditional values of patience, integrity and loyalty. Its prevailing ethos is exemplified in its hands-on, old-school Victorian distillery, Benromach. Now, however, Gordon & MacPhail is looking to the future with a decidedly ‘new-school’ distillery, The Cairn, which can be operated entirely from an iPad.
Having made its name as a pioneering independent bottler, credited as one of the principal guardians of single malts from the 1960s onwards, the family-owned company expanded into distilling after purchasing the silent Benromach distillery at Forres in 1993. Five years later, the re-equipped plant was up and running again and a wide range of expressions has subsequently been released.
With a taste for whisky making and for the benefits of controlling the entire process from malt purchasing to packaging, the company announced in May 2018 that it was to supplement its
