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Glenfiddich. Glenfiddich distillery (Scottish English: [ɡlɛnˈfɪdɪç] [1]) is a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky distillery located in the Scottish burgh of Dufftown in Moray. Is owned by William Grant & Sons. The name Glenfiddich derives from the Scottish Gaelic Gleann Fhiodhaich meaning "valley of the deer", which is reflected in ...
It is the largest of the handful of Scotch whisky distillers remaining in family ownership. [3] The company is the third largest producer of Scotch whisky (8% market share), shipping about 7.6 million cases per year, with brands including Glenfiddich and Balvenie. [4] [5] The first and second largest, respectively, are Diageo (34.4%), and ...
Charles Grant Gordon (brother) Alexander Grant "Sandy" Gordon, CBE (6 May 1931 – 21 December 2020) was a Scottish distiller who was credited with creating a global market for single malt Scotch whisky. [1] As a managing director of the William Grant and Sons Glenfiddich distillery between 1968 and 1996, he is credited with global market ...
William Grant (businessman) William Grant (19 December 1839 – 1923) was a Scottish distiller and entrepreneur who founded William Grant & Sons, the manufacturer of Glenfiddich, as such, the first company in the world to market a true single malt whisky and a leading brand today.
Speyside single malts are single malt Scotch whiskies, distilled in Strathspey, the area around the River Spey in Moray and Badenoch and Strathspey, in northeastern Scotland. The two best-selling single malt whiskies in the world, The Glenlivet and Glenfiddich, come from Speyside. Strathspey has the greatest number of distilleries of any of the ...
Grant's is the oldest family-owned blended whisky and is currently sold in over 180 countries. It is the world's fourth largest Scotch whisky brand, selling 4.1 million cases of whisky in the first half of 2020. [6] The mother company, William Grant & Sons also owns single malt whisky brands, including Glenfiddich and The Balvenie.
Born in Ayr on the west coast of Scotland in 1945, David Stewart started work at William Grant & Sons as an apprentice in 1962, the year before Single Malt Scotch Whisky was first officially exported to England, when Glenfiddich became the first single malt to be enjoyed outside Scotland. Following a 12-year apprenticeship at the independent ...
ABV. 40%. Map. The Glenlivet. The Glenlivet distillery is a distillery near Ballindalloch in Moray, Scotland, that produces single malt Scotch whisky. It is the oldest legal distillery in the Highlands of Scotland. It was founded in 1824 and has operated almost continuously since. [1]