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Release Notes
A limited bottling from Lindores Abbey Distillery. Matured exclusively in Oloroso Sherry Butts. One of the three core Casks of Lindores. This Lindores Single Malt isbottled at the distillery at our unique limited edition strength of 49.4% vol.
From the Bottle
The Distillery: Lindores Abbey
| Established: 2017 |
| Silent since: False |
| Address: Newburgh, Fife KY14 6HH |
| → website |
Distilling was taking place on this site at least as early as 1494, although it was most probably happening long before that.
We know this because of the earliest written reference to Scotch Whisky (or Aqua Vitae, as it was then known), which appears in the Exchequer Roll of the same year. It records a Brother John Cor, a Lindores monk, who was commissioned by King James IV to turn 8 bolls of malt into Aqua Vitae.
8 Bolls of malt amounts to around 500kg in modern terms and would have been enough to make about 400 bottles of today’s whisky.
In 2017, spirit started flowing once again from copper stills at Lindores Abbey Distillery, and the first single malt whisky was released in 2021.
Learning as much as we can from the great Scottish distillers around us, past and present, and from others much further afield, we are delighted to be bringing a very modern whisky-making approach to this ancient site.
We know this because of the earliest written reference to Scotch Whisky (or Aqua Vitae, as it was then known), which appears in the Exchequer Roll of the same year. It records a Brother John Cor, a Lindores monk, who was commissioned by King James IV to turn 8 bolls of malt into Aqua Vitae.
8 Bolls of malt amounts to around 500kg in modern terms and would have been enough to make about 400 bottles of today’s whisky.
In 2017, spirit started flowing once again from copper stills at Lindores Abbey Distillery, and the first single malt whisky was released in 2021.
Learning as much as we can from the great Scottish distillers around us, past and present, and from others much further afield, we are delighted to be bringing a very modern whisky-making approach to this ancient site.
from Lindores Abbey
The Owner: Spirex Ltd.
| Established: 2018 |
| Silent since: False |
| Address: Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH6 5GD |
More than 75 per cent of Lindores Distilling Co is owned by Spirex Ltd, a holding company with an Edinburgh address controlled by four Russian nationals including Anton Buslov, Sergey Fokin and Sergey Uryadov.
Three of the Russians who control Spirex Ltd have reported links to the Russian state. Fokin, Buslov and Uryadov, were listed as shareholders in U-BF Management LLC, and named as directors of Avilex LLC, a Russian technology firm whose work includes information security, surveillance and encryption.
Avilex has won contracts with the Moscow Counter Terrorism Commission, Moscow City Government and Gazprom.The firm has also worked with the Russian army and provided a surveillance system for the Moscow Metro.
According to a Russian business website, Avilex had a licence issued by the Centre for Licensing, Certification and Protection of State Secrets of the FSB (Russia’s Federal Security Service). The licence was for “the right to engage” in activities such as protecting information systems using encryption. The FSB was the successor to the Soviet Union’s KGB.
Announcing that its Russian directors had agreed to resign, Lindores Distilling said: “They are certainly not oligarchs and certainly not on any sanctions list. They are first and foremost whisky lovers.”
Three of the Russians who control Spirex Ltd have reported links to the Russian state. Fokin, Buslov and Uryadov, were listed as shareholders in U-BF Management LLC, and named as directors of Avilex LLC, a Russian technology firm whose work includes information security, surveillance and encryption.
Avilex has won contracts with the Moscow Counter Terrorism Commission, Moscow City Government and Gazprom.The firm has also worked with the Russian army and provided a surveillance system for the Moscow Metro.
According to a Russian business website, Avilex had a licence issued by the Centre for Licensing, Certification and Protection of State Secrets of the FSB (Russia’s Federal Security Service). The licence was for “the right to engage” in activities such as protecting information systems using encryption. The FSB was the successor to the Soviet Union’s KGB.
Announcing that its Russian directors had agreed to resign, Lindores Distilling said: “They are certainly not oligarchs and certainly not on any sanctions list. They are first and foremost whisky lovers.”
from TheFerret.scot