The Journal
Notes from
Notes from
the Still House.
From the warehouse floor, the tasting room and the glen.
Why We Have Never Replaced the Stills
The copper pot stills at Meridian Cask are 127 years old. We have repaired them fourteen times. Here is why replacement has never been an option.
Read More →The Sherry Cask Problem
Everyone wants sherry casks. Very few distilleries talk honestly about the quality spectrum. Ours come from a single cooperage in Jerez. Here is why that matters.
Read More →On the Angel's Share
We lose around 2% of our cask inventory to evaporation every year. That sounds like a loss. It is also the reason Highland whisky tastes the way it does.
Read More →Finding the 1923 Ledgers
In a box in the old malting house, we found the distillery ledgers from 1923 to 1941. What they told us about how whisky was made then — and how little has changed.
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