Distilleries
Port Charlotte Brand
Published 13/08/2025
Port Charlotte, the pretty white village on the Hebridean island of Islay, once housed several whisky distilleries: Sgioba Mill Octomore Lochindaal (a.k.a. Port Charlotte or Rhinns) Today the Port Charlotte name lives on, but as a brand produced at nearby Bruichladdich. History of Port Charlotte Brand distillery Laird Walter Frederik Campbell of Shawfield once honoured his mother with the name. As was the fashion of Scotland’s feudal landowners at the time, he laid the site in 1828 to promote the crafts and fishing of the remote West Scottish region.
Port Dundas
Published 13/08/2025
The former Lowland Whisky distillery Port Dundas was in the center of Glasgow on the Forth-Clyde Canal, framed by various parks. Production of Port Dundas whisky Port Dundas is considered a full-bodied, characterful and heavy grain whisky that become a little lighter in the final few years of the distillery. As a classic Diageo distillery, it has always contributed significantly to their numerous blends. Haig, White Horse and Johnnie Walker, among others, were supplied with their grain whisky.
Port Ellen
Published 13/08/2025
Originally there were two distilleries in the Port Dundas district of Glasgow. The first was founded there in 1811 by Daniel McFarlane. Two years later the second distillery was established there by Brown, Gourlie & Co. The two distilleries merged in the 1860s and in 1877 they were taken over by the Distillers Company, now Diageo, of which it was part of the founders club. Port Dundas grain whisky was used for making Johnnie Walker, J&B
Pradlo
Published 13/08/2025
The communist single malt distillery! Sadly no longer active and by all accounts the remaining stock will be gone in a few short years but it’s output is still available and well worth trying, especially given the price! In Czechoslovakia living standards were fairly high however few Western products were available for the elite. The communist states’ currencies were not convertible and the command economies failed to produce goods to exchange for sufficient foreign currency.
Rogner
Published 13/08/2025
The products of Hermann and Elisabeth Rogner are “well grounded!” After all, their company, the Rogner distillery in Roiten near Rappottenstein in the Waldviertel, is on the best ground. Created for special and excellent fruit and grain brandies, whisky, liqueurs, rum and other spirits as well as fruity creations. Green forests, lush meadows, the clear, natural Kamp river and a lot of tradition are indispensable for the Rogners. Hermann runs the business with his wife Elisabeth in the second generation, daughter Anna grows up on the parental farm.