10.06.20 Events
The InchDairnie Sculpture – Time
Scotch Whisky has only four ingredients, water, barley, yeast and time. Time is the most difficult to understand, many things happen over time when the new make whisky is filled into the cask. InchDairnie commissioned Fife born Marion Smith, www.marionsmithsculptor.co.uk/ to make a sculpture to show what happens over time in the cask. Marion designed an hour glass structure with drops passing down the glass changing in colour and reducing number. The structure uses two of the distillery’s key materials, stainless steel and copper.
The copper in the stills absorbs the sulphur compounds in the new whisky allowing the lighter more floral fermentation driven flavours to come through into the spirit.
The colour change illustrates the extractive process where the clear new make spirit extracts colour from the oak changing its colour. The colour will depend on the type of oak used in to make the cask and what use the cask was put to before coming to distillery.
The reducing number of drops illustrates the evaporative process, the angels share. Where the most volatile of the alcohols pass through the oak cask and into the atmosphere in the warehouse. This smooth’s the spirit flavour profile reducing the spirit burn when drunk.
Time is also expressed in seasons. InchDairnie produces its whisky differently according to season creating different flavours to reflect the season. It uses Spring barley in the spring and summer seasons and Winter barley in the autumn and winter season. InchDairnie is one of the very few distilleries in Scotland to use Winter malted barley.
A Sustainable 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.
InchDairnie Leads LeBlanq’s Scotland Joyriding Weekend
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
We are delighted to be awarded Highly Commended by the IWSC in the Design Award category.
Rob takes RyeLaw on a journey through the Norwegian Fjords, with LeBlanq
Last week, our Brand Ambassador Rob, joined LeBlanq for another unforgettable weekend in Norway.
Michelin-Star Chef Lorna McNee Visits InchDairnie
To get some inspiration for her dishes, Lorna visited the distillery in Fife to learn about our innovative process and to get a flavour of our precision distilled malted rye Scotch whisky.
RyeLaw Wins Gold
RyeLaw Fife Single Grain Scotch Whisky is awarded Gold by the Beverage Testing Institute.
RyeLaw Whisky Heads to Champagne with LeBlanq
At the end of June, our Chairman Ian and Brand Ambassador Rob attended LeBlanq’s first Joyride weekend of the year in Champagne, with Michelin-Star Chef Anthony Demetre, and cycling legends Greg Lemond and Nico Roche.