The Glenora Inn & Distillery is located on a 900 acre site in
Glenville, Inverness County,
Nova Scotia, Canada.
The distillery and tourism facilities were constructed during the
period 1988-1990. The buildings consist of malt storage, grist mill,
mash house, still house, warehouses, bottling plant, and a 6 chalet,
9 room inn hospitality facility. The structures were constructed in
traditional post and beam style, similar in nature to distilleries
found in Scotland.
The Architect was David Forsyth.
The 2 copper pot stills were made by Forsyth & Sons of Speyside
Scotland. The Glenora Distillery
has an annual production licence of 250,000 litres of alcohol; its
current production is 50,000 litres which can easily be expanded to
400,000 - 500,000 litres per annum with reasonable additional
expenditures.
1st Release - In the fall of 2000, Glenora Distillers
released the first bottling,
Glen Breton Rare, North America’s
first Single Malt Whisky.It
is an 8 year old and has a blue label.The first 500 bottles were signed, numbered and boxed as a
collector item.Price per
bottle ranges from CDN 300.00 to 50,000.00 (bottle #1). The balance
of this bottling sold in just one year.
2nd Release – In the fall of 2001 Glenora Distillers
released the second bottling. The
9 year old expression has a black label and is packaged in a black
hinged box.
Friendship Series – In Fall, 2001 Glenora Distillers packaged an
additional 9 year bottling as the expanded market reached
Japan.
14 Year – In Fall 2004, Glenora Distillers released the first single
cask bottling.In 1990, the
first year of production, there were only 20 casks barrelled. Cask #
6 of 20 was originally aged in a bourbon cask, later moved to a rum
cask, then a sherry, and back to bourbon cask. The final casking
yielded 120 bottles.Their
price started at CDN 300.00 per bottle. It is sold out.
15 Year - In 2005 Cask # 5 (1990) was released as
a single cask bottling. The yield was 194 bottles and as
Cask # 6 (1990) it was originally aged in a bourbon cask, later
moved to a rum cask, then a sherry, and back to bourbon cask. It is
sold out.
In addition to fine whisky, Glenora Distillers also blends and
bottles Smuggler's Cove rum.
After a couple of years bottling a 9 year
expression, Glenora Distillers bottled a 10 year expression.
It too is in in a black hinged box with a black label and an age
statement on the bottle.
Glenora
Distillers partnered with Jost Vineyard, an award winning Nova
Scotia winery, to produce the worlds first Ice Wine finished single
malt whisky. Originally available in a 10 year expression the
line was later expanded to include 15 and 17 year expressions.
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