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Our Founder Ian Palmer, Hands Over the Reins as Managing Director to Scott Sneddon
Today, InchDairnie Distillery announces a significant management transition, as whisky industry visionary Ian Palmer will hand over the reins as Managing Director to Scott Sneddon, the distillery’s current Distillery Director.
“We will forever be grateful for Ian’s foresight, innovative spirit and willingness to seek the boundaries of Scotch whisky” explains coming Managing Director Scott Sneddon. “Ian has been a key driver in developing the award-winning InchDairnie bottle and in securing the equipment such as our unusual hammer mill and mash filter, that has enabled us to distil winter barley, unmalted barley, rye, wheat, oats and create future classics such as Scotch Sour Mash and Pot Still whisky”.
Ian Palmer’s illustrious career in the whisky industry commenced in 1978 at Invergordon Distillers, where he cultivated his expertise at the grain distillery in Invergordon. His unwavering passion for whisky led him to Edinburgh, where he oversaw the company’s whisky bottling operations following its acquisition by Whyte and Mackay. After holding various senior roles in the industry and assisting in building others, both malt and grain, distilleries, Mr. Palmer conceptualized the innovative InchDairnie Distillery and brought it to life in 2015, pioneering equipment that defies convention to unlock unique flavour profiles.
Scott Sneddon has been with the distillery since it was a green field site and has been instrumental, together with outgoing Managing Director Ian Palmer, in the planning, building, commissioning, running and ongoing expansions of the InchDairnie Distillery which first spirit ran from the stills in December 2015.
Scott will be an integral part of the continued launching of the highly successful and praised rye whisky RyeLaw across the world – and indeed the coming brands released from InchDairnie Distillery, including the peated malt KinGlassie in 2025 and the InchDairnie Single Malt in 2029.
The full press release can be found here: InchDairnie Distillery Management Change Press Release May 2024
KinGlassie: Peat Use and Restoration
We recognise that whisky relies on natural resources for its production, and that making a peated whisky uses a precious Scottish resource. We do not take this for granted. Extraction has an impact on the environment, so we are taking steps to balance what we use by supporting peatland restoration across Scotland.
A Partnership with Muntons Malt
In this ever-changing landscape of sustainability, we feel we are in safe hands. Much of our carbon footprint is in our cereals, so working directly with both Munton’s and our local Fife farmer at Balgonie Estate, we are working together to reduce this.
Our Longstanding Partnership with Muntons Malt
Our partnership with Muntons has been crucial to our success as a Fife grown, Fife distilled and Fife matured distillery. The relationship we have developed with Balgonie Estates as a result of this, is essential to the ongoing production of our RyeLaw whisky.
InchDairnie Doubles Capacity with Significant Distillery Expansion
As we approach our 10th anniversary next year, we are doubling our production capacity to 4 million litres per year — ushering in a new era of innovation to meet the rising demand for our bold, flavour-led whiskies.
InchDairnie features on BBC Landward
InchDairnie had the pleasure of hosting BBC landward at the distillery for a feature in the latest season of BBC Scotland’s Landward.
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September rolled around and it was soon time to take the lead for our main weekend with LeBlanq as their luxury whisky partner for the 2023/24 and this time we were in the heart of Perthshire at the beautiful Dunalistar Hotel Suites, on the banks of Loch Rannoch.
RyeLaw Awarded Highly Commended from IWSC
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Rob takes RyeLaw on a journey through the Norwegian Fjords, with LeBlanq
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Michelin-Star Chef Lorna McNee Visits InchDairnie
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RyeLaw Wins Gold
RyeLaw Fife Single Grain Scotch Whisky is awarded Gold by the Beverage Testing Institute.