Lindores Abbey distillery

About Lindores AbbeyScotland

Lindores Abbey Distillery is in Newburgh, Fife, in the Lowland whisky region of Scotland, across the road from the ruins of Lindores Abbey. The Exchequer Rolls of 1494 record malt sent "to Friar John Cor, by order of the King, to make Aqua Vitae", the first written record of whisky distillation in Scotland, and that friar lived and worked at Lindores. Drew McKenzie Smith, whose family has owned the Lindores estate since 1913, set up the distillery with his wife Helen in converted farm buildings in 2017, with advice from Dr Jim Swan, and it began distilling in December 2017 on three stills made by Forsyths of Rothes. While the spirit matured it sold an aqua vitae instead of gin, and its first single malt, Lindores MCDXCIV, came out in 2021, matured in bourbon and sherry casks and shaved, toasted, re-charred red wine barriques. Its limited releases began with the 1494 Inaugural Members Release, distilled 2018 and bottled 2021 at 49.4%, followed by The Casks of Lindores, a 49.4% series that bottles the bourbon, STR wine barrique and sherry casks of the core range separately.