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 %