PulteneyTown

The seamen hau’d the herring ashore
The filleting girls aw dripp’d wi gore
Oh what a sight to see, in old Wick town
As the polis men closed aw the pubs down
For the fishing boom had attracted the worst
The dregs of humanity with one big thirst
"Five hundred gallons of whisky a day
Was drunk" the vicar Thomson, did say
Ten to a room they crammed thi gether
Disease was there whatever the weather
Typhoid, smallpox and the fevers
Many were the saddened grievers
For Pulteneytown was a wild, wild place
Wi aw the worst of the hale human race
Eventually there was Prohibition
The only answer to this condition
A dry town wi’ a working Distillery
Where aw the drunks were put in the pillory

Geschichte der Pulteney-Destillerie

 

1826    Gründung durch James Henderson

1920    Verkauf an James Watson & Co. Ltd. (Dundee)

1923    Erwerb durch John Dewar's & Sons Ltd.

1925    Übernahme durch DCL

1930    Geschlossen

1951    Wiederinbetriebnahme durch Robert Cumming (Anwalt aus Banff)

1955    Kauf durch Hiram Walker

1959    Komplette Renovierung

1995    Erwerb durch Inver House Distillers

2000    Eröffnung des Visitor Centre

 

Generelle Informationen

 

Wasserquelle     The Loch of Hempriggs

Manager           Fred Sinclair

Maltbezug        Robert Kilgour & Co. Ltd. (Kirkcaldy)

Washback       4, Edelstahl, 5600 gallons/Stk

Stills                2, 4700 gallons/Stk, Dampfbetrieben

Output            262000 proof gallons/Jahr

 

Benannt nach Sir William Johnstone Pulteney

Hauptoutput geht in Ballantine's Blends

Bekannt als "Manzanilla des Nordens" aufgrund seiner Salzigkeit

Nördlichste Destillerie des schottischen Festlandes (Wick)

Bekam die Vorsilbe "Old" wegen der schnellen Reifung des Whisky

Prohibition in Wick von 1922 bis 1947

 

Old Pulteney, OB, 12 yrs, 40 %

Old Pulteney, OB, 15 yrs, Sherry Wood Cask # 931, 19.11.1982/Sept. 1998, 375 bottles, 59.9 %

Old Pulteney, OB, 17 yrs, Lim. Ed., 46 %

Old Pulteney, OB, 18 yrs, Sherry Wood, Cask # 1303, 58.4 %

Pulteney, Cad. Auth. Coll., 8 yrs,

Pulteney, Cad. Auth. Coll., 13 yrs,

Old Pulteney, DL, OMC, 1964, 34 yrs, 12/1964-10/1999, 197 bottles, 50 %

Pulteney, DT, PC, 26 yrs, July 1977/Jan 2004, Cask# 3078, 209 bottles, 58.3 %

Old Pulteney, G&M, 8 yrs, 40 %

Old Pulteney, HB, 12 yrs, Aug 1990/Sept 2002, 55.6 %

Pulteney, Scott’s Sel., 1977/2005, 55.9 %

Old Pulteney, Sign., 1990, 13 yrs, 4.10.1990/10.11.2003, Bourbon Cask # 03/734/47+49, 637 bottles, 43 %

Old Pulteney, SMWS 52.17, 18 yrs, June 1984/March 2003, 52.7 %