Chivas Brothers, the Scotch whisky arm of Pernod Ricard, lately introduced a significant funding into the Aberlour and Miltonduff single malt distilleries, with plans to improve sustainable distillation know-how.
The distillery expansions will in flip develop Chivas Brothers’ whole manufacturing by 14 million liters of alcohol a 12 months.
An announcement from Chivas Brothers notes that this funding confirms the model’s dedication to sustainable practices in Scotland and is a testomony to the rising world demand for Scotch whisky.
A rendering of Aberlour’s deliberate improve (picture by way of Aberlour)
The whisky maker has seen market good points in Latin America, Center East, Africa and Asia, and in its second quarter reviews, has seen web gross sales enhance 23% (past pre-Covid ranges).
The distillery expansions will assist Chivas Brothers’ objective of reaching carbon impartial distillation by 2026 with the set up of latest bio vegetation and high-efficiency Mechanical Vapor Recompression (MVR) fan know-how for pot nonetheless distillation throughout each websites.
This know-how permits main power restoration by compressing the vapor which then rises in temperature and is shipped again to warmth the stills in the course of the distillation course of. A pilot examine at its Glentauchers distillery resulted in power reductions of 90% on a single pot nonetheless.
Jean-Etienne Gourgues, chairman and CEO of Chivas Brothers, mentioned, “Scotch has demonstrated its resilience as a class over the previous few difficult years and within the course of has opened new avenues for development. This enlargement will permit us to extend our quantity to capitalize on the elevated demand and curiosity in Scotch, but additionally helps our drive to scale back emissions in step with our sustainability ambitions. We’re as soon as once more betting large on the way forward for Scotch so we are able to herald new shoppers to the class and proceed to form a sustainable way forward for whisky.”
The Aberlour distillery, making whisky since 1879, will see its manufacturing capability double to 7.8 million liters of alcohol a 12 months. The distillery will see a big facelift with an upgraded customer middle, which in flip will draw extra whisky followers to the world and enhance native tourism.
A brand new nonetheless home can be geared up with giant home windows offering guests with views into the close by woods and the River Spey, the water supply for the spirit.
Miltonduff’s enlargement will include a model new state-of-the-art sustainable distillery constructed subsequent to the present facility. The distillery, which can embrace a bio plant and evaporator, will add 10 million liters of alcohol a 12 months to the whole manufacturing capability.
Miltonduff single malt is likely one of the foundations of Ballantine’s blends and is a key part of different blended whiskies within the Chivas Brothers portfolio.
Each websites are anticipated to be working at full manufacturing capability by mid-2025.
