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Scotch whisky has been a major industry for decades with exports totalling £4.7 billion in 2018, according to the Association. Whisky tourism is a side-benefit with distilleries being the third most visited attractions in Scotland, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS), founded in Edinburgh in 1983, is a membership organisation which bottles and sells single cask, single malt whisky. It purchases individual casks from more than 170 [ 1 ] malt whisky distilleries in Scotland and throughout the world, bottles them and retails directly to its members.
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All regions of that produce Scotch Whisky benefit, of course; the Scotch Whisky Association estimated in 2019 that whisky tourism in Scotland generates £68.3 million per year. [14] The Association also stated that the industry supported 40,000 jobs and accounted for over £4 billion in exports for Scotland; the specific benefits for Speyside ...
This is an incomplete list of whisky distilleries in Scotland. According to the Scotch Whisky Association there were 151 distilleries licensed to produce Scotch whisky as of May 2024. [ 1 ]
It was founded on 30 September 1974 as Pentlands Scotch Whisky Research, at the North British Distillery. [1] [2] It changed to its current name in October 1995. It moved to its present site on 1 August 1997. Scotch whisky is the UK's fifth-biggest export, and the UK's largest food and drink commodity.
Rosebank Distillery is a Lowland single malt Scotch whisky distillery situated in Camelon on the banks of the Forth and Clyde canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow.. The distillery was founded on its present site in1840 by James Rankine, a local wine merchant, and within forty years the Rankine's were shipping their whisky around the world.
In 2009, 30-year-old Whyte & Mackay whisky was voted the best blended whisky in the world in two competitions. [24] In 2011, Whyte and Mackay whisky won International Wine & Spirits Competition Gold - Best in Class. [citation needed] In 2012, White and Mackay whisky won San Francisco Spirits Competition 2012 Gold medal. [citation needed]