From Our Paddock to Your Glass. Our First Single Malt Whisky.

We've grown barley on this farm for generations.

We've watched it emerge from the ground, worried about the weather, waited for it to ripen and spent countless hours harvesting it.

For most of that time, once the grain left the farm gate, that was the end of our involvement.

But we always wondered what might happen if we took it a little further.

Well, now we know.

Our first Single Malt Barley Whisky has arrived.

It all starts with the barley

Long before there's a whisky to pour, there's a crop to grow.

The soil has to be prepared, the seed sown and the weather has to play its part. And as every farmer knows, the weather doesn't always cooperate.

Then comes harvest.

It's a moment we never tire of. Watching the combine move through a paddock of ripe barley, knowing that another year's work is finally coming together.

But instead of sending all that grain away, we kept some of it for ourselves.

To make whisky.

One grain. One farm.

Single malt whisky is made from malted barley.

And in our case, that barley is grown right here at Scotts Gap.

We know the paddocks it came from, the season it grew in and the conditions it experienced along the way.

That's something we're particularly proud of.

Because while whisky is often talked about in terms of the casks it's matured in, we think the grain deserves a little more attention.

After all, without the barley, there wouldn't be any whisky.

A different kind of harvest

Once our barley has been malted, it comes back into the whisky-making process.

We mash it, ferment it and distil it here on the farm, using water from our own spring.

Then the spirit goes into oak casks, where time takes over.

And while those casks are quietly maturing, we're back out in the paddocks growing the next crop.

There's something rather wonderful about that cycle.

The farm keeps farming. The whisky keeps maturing. And eventually, the two stories come together in a bottle.

Finally, we get to share it

Our first Single Malt Barley Whisky is now ready.

It's the result of years of work, but its story began long before we ever thought about building a distillery.

It began with growing grain.

Something our family has been doing here for a very long time.

And perhaps that's what makes this release so special to us.

We're still farmers.

We just happen to make whisky from what we grow.

From our paddock to your glass.