TAMNAVULIN ANNOUNCES NEW DISTILLERY MANAGER
Leon Webb joins Tamnavulin following distillery’s success at
Spirit of Speyside Pageant
The award-wining Speyside distillery Tamnavulin has appointed skilled whisky maker Leon Webb as its new Distillery Supervisor. His arrival additional bolsters the distilling staff on the world’s quickest rising Single Malt[1], which lately received gold at The Spirit of Speyside Awards for Tamnavulin Spanish Grenache Cask.
Leon joined the staff in early Could, returning to his native Scotland following a interval of 5 years in Canada, working as Grasp Distiller and Blender for the well-respected Shelter Level Distillery on Vancouver Island, B.C.
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Initially from Aviemore within the Scottish Highlands, Leon graduated with an MSc in Brewing and Distilling from Heriot-Watt College in Edinburgh, earlier than embarking on his distilling profession in each Scotland and Canada, producing numerous award-winning liquids.
He joins Tamnavulin’s Distiller Sam Douglas and Blender Kirsty Hodge, who has been working carefully with the distillery lately, as a part of the broader Whyte & Mackay Distilling Crew, which is headed up by Grasp Whisky Maker and Blender Gregg Glass.
Shane Healey, Distillery Director at Whyte & Mackay, stated: “Leon shall be a improbable addition to Tamnavulin and our Distilling Crew. I’m assured he’ll construct on all the good work already completed on the distillery and make an awesome contribution to the extraordinary progress of the Tamnavulin model around the globe. Leon joins Tamnavulin at an thrilling time, recent after the Spirit of Speyside Pageant.”
The only malt model was introduced again to life in 2016 as a quintessential signature Speyside malt whisky. The fruit-forward liquids produced are all double-matured and enhanced via wine cask finishes, launched at an reasonably priced value level.
Quite a few award wins later – coupled with a fast progress in demand from client and commerce alike have shortly established Tamnavulin as a number one instance of high quality Speyside whisky – testomony to a distillery and whisky making staff that shall be additional bolstered by Leon’s expertise.
Tamnavulin lately introduced the addition of a White Wine Cask Version to its core vary, constructing on the recognition of the model’s Purple Wine Cask Editions.
About Tamnavulin
On the Southern fringe of Speyside, within the foothills of the Cairngorm Mountains, lies Tamnavulin Distillery. Inbuilt 1966, the Distillery takes its identify from the Gaelic for ‘mill on the hill’, the distillery was named after the historic woollen mill which nonetheless sits subsequent to the distillery. After closing in 1995, the distillery underwent a significant refurbishment earlier than it was re-opened in 2007. The primary whisky from the newly opened distillery was launched in 2016, a lot to the anticipation of whisky followers.
Tucked away on the sting of the River Livet, set on the financial institution of the Allt’ a Choire, Tamnavulin attracts water from underground springs within the Easterton hills shaped by snowmelt from the encircling mountains. This water is of course filtered via historical limestone rock earlier than reaching the distillery, leading to a number of the purest spring water to be present in Scotland.
The small group of expert, time-served craftsmen started creating Tamnavulin’s signature Speyside malt whisky over fifty years in the past utilizing the best elements mixed with age-old distilling experience and complex strategies.
Since its launch in 2016, Tamnavulin has pushed a profitable path which has seen it turn into the quickest rising single malt globally in 2020 (IWSR ‘000’s 8.4L instances) and the no.4 model by quantity within the UK (Nielsen Scantrack/Kantar date to 9th of October 2021).
[1] *IWSR 2019-20, largest rising Single Malt
