Lowland Single Malts
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Scottish Lowlands
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of Scotland
Scotland
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The region now only has three currently producing distilleries: Glenkinchie
Glenkinchie
Glenkinchie is a Scotch single malt whisky, produced at the Glenkinchie Distillery in East Lothian, Scotland. It is one of only three remaining Lowland malt whiskies in production.- The Distillery:...
, near Edinburgh
Edinburgh
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; Auchentoshan
Auchentoshan
Auchentoshan Distillery is a Single Malt whisky distillery in the west of Scotland. The name Auchentoshan is gaelic and translates as "The corner of the field", the distillery is also known as "Glasgow's Malt Whisky" due to its close proximity to Glasgow and "the breakfast whisky" due to its sweet...
, near Clydebank
Clydebank
Clydebank is a town in West Dunbartonshire, in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Situated on the north bank of the River Clyde, Clydebank borders Dumbarton, the town with which it was combined to form West Dunbartonshire, as well as the town of Milngavie in East Dunbartonshire, and the Yoker and...
; and Bladnoch
Bladnoch Distillery
Bladnoch Distillery is a Single malt Scotch whisky distillery in south west Scotland. It is one of only three remaining Lowland distilleries, and is located at Bladnoch, near Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway...
in Galloway
Galloway
Galloway is an area in southwestern Scotland. It usually refers to the former counties of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire...
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A new distillery (Daftmill, in Fife) has started distilling but has not yet brought a single malt to market. Daftmill could legally start bottling a single malt (or supplying blenders) at any time, because its first batches have now been in cask for more than three years. Three years is the legal minimum pre-bottling ageing period for a product labelled Scotch Whisky, although single malts this young are usually only marketed in countries such as Italy. It is not known whether Daftmill are supplying malt to producers of blended whisky or vatted malts, but this is likely (the majority of most distilleries' production is sold this way).
At least six other lowland single malts are still available, but are no longer distilled, Rosebank
Rosebank Distillery
The Rosebank Distillery was situated in Camelon on the banks of the Forth and Clyde canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow.The origins of the distillery in Camelon are hazy, according to some they go as far back as the 1790s...
, Kinclaith
Kinclaith
The Kinclaith was the last Malt whisky still built in Glasgow, within the Strathclyde Grain distillery complex, in 1958. The Kinclaith distillery was closed in 1975.- Production :...
, St. Magdalene, Ladyburn, Inverleven and Littlemill
Littlemill
Littlemill is a village located close to Nairn in Nairnshire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland....
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Traditionally Lowland Single Malts are triple distilled (though this has not been true of all of them), often giving them a lighter taste.