Abhainn Dearg was the first legal distillery to be opened in the Isle of Lewis but it ran only for two years in the 1850s. After that, Lewisians had to import their Scotch from the mainland.
All of that changed in 2008 when Marko Tayburn built a distillery at Red River [Abhainn Dearg] on the western coast of the island making this officially the most remote whisky-making site in Scotland. The distillery produces a mix of unpeated and peated whiskies..
In December 2018, the distillery launched its first 10-year-old single malts – the oldest whisky to be produced by a legal distillery in the Outer Hebrides.
Region: Island
Area: Isle of Lewis
Current Owner: Mark Tayburn
Founded : 2008
Founder : Mark Tayburn
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Website: www.abhainndeargdistillery.co.uk
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