Glenturret. Sixteen whiskies.

Glenturret lies near Crieff in Perthshire, on the River Turret. A lease deed from 1763 already mentions a distillery on this spot. It began with smugglers who made good use of the remote location and the clean water. That makes it the oldest working distillery in Scotland.

For a long time Glenturret was largely invisible. The whisky mostly went into The Famous Grouse, and the site was even converted into a visitor centre for that blend. There was a single malt of its own, but you had to travel far to find one.

That changed in 2019, when the French crystal house Lalique and the Swiss-American entrepreneur Hansjörg Wyss bought the distillery. They brought in Bob Dalgarno, who had previously worked for thirty years at Macallan, and launched a completely new range in 2020.

Until recently the mash here was still stirred by hand with a large wooden stick. That stopped because the people doing it ended up with shoulder problems.