Distilleries
Where the whisky actually comes from
Every bottle starts somewhere. Browse the distilleries behind the whiskies we review, grouped by where they are made, with full profiles where we have them.
Scotland
Scottish region hub →Ardmore Distillery
Ardnamurchan Distillery
Auchentoshan Distillery
Balblair Distillery
Ben Nevis Distillery
Benriach Distillery
Benromach Distillery
Bladnoch Distillery
Blair Athol Distillery
Cardhu Distillery
Clynelish Distillery
Cragganmore Distillery
Craigellachie Distillery
Daftmill Distillery
Dailuaine Distillery
Dalwhinnie Distillery
Deanston Distillery
Dufftown Distillery
Edradour Distillery
Fettercairn Distillery
Glen Elgin Distillery
Glen Garioch Distillery
Glen Grant Distillery
Glen Keith Distillery
Glen Moray Distillery
Glen Scotia Distillery
Glen Spey Distillery
Glenburgie Distillery
Glencadam Distillery
GlenDronach Distillery
Glendullan Distillery
Glenfarclas Distillery
Glenfiddich Distillery
Glenglassaugh Distillery
Glengoyne Distillery
Glengyle Distillery
Glenkinchie Distillery
Glenlossie Distillery
Glenmorangie Distillery
Glenrothes Distillery
Highland Park Distillery
Holyrood Distillery
Inchgower Distillery
Isle of Harris Distillery
Isle of Raasay Distillery
Jura Distillery
Kininvie Distillery
Knockando Distillery
Lagavulin Distillery
Islay’s rich, slow-distilled, peat-smoked single malt, made on Lagavulin Bay since 1816.
Lagg Distillery
Linkwood Distillery
Loch Lomond Distillery
Lochlea Distillery
Lochranza Distillery
Longmorn Distillery
Macduff Distillery
Mannochmore Distillery
Miltonduff Distillery
Mortlach Distillery
Nc’nean Distillery
Oban Distillery
Old Pulteney Distillery
Port of Leith Distillery
Royal Brackla Distillery
Royal Lochnagar Distillery
Scapa Distillery
Speyburn Distillery
Springbank Distillery
Strathisla Distillery
Strathmill Distillery
Talisker Distillery
Tamdhu Distillery
Teaninich Distillery
The Balvenie Distillery
The Clydeside Distillery
The Dalmore Distillery
The Glasgow Distillery
The GlenAllachie Distillery
The Glenlivet Distillery
The Macallan Distillery
Tobermory Distillery
Tomatin Distillery
Tomintoul Distillery
Torabhaig Distillery
Tormore Distillery
Tullibardine Distillery
Wolfburn Distillery
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Ireland
Irish region hub →Ballykeefe Distillery
A family farm distillery in County Kilkenny, making triple-distilled Irish whiskey from barley grown on its own land.
Blackwater Distillery
A small independent distillery on the Blackwater River in County Waterford, known for gin and now making pot still Irish whiskey.
Boann Distillery
A family-run distillery on the Boyne that ended Drogheda’s 160-year whiskey drought.
Bushmills Distillery
Northern Ireland’s historic distillery on the River Bush, triple distilled and a short drive from the Giant’s Causeway.
Connacht Distillery
Mayo’s first distillery in 150 years, built in an old bakery and now trading as Ballina.
Cooley Distillery
The County Louth distillery behind Connemara and The Tyrconnell, and a founding name in the modern Irish whiskey revival.
Dingle Distillery
A Kerry craft distillery in a converted sawmill on the Wild Atlantic Way, making single pot still and single malt whiskey, gin and vodka.
Dublin Liberties Distillery
A €10 million distillery in an old Dublin mill and tannery, with production paused since May 2025.
Echlinville Distillery
A field-to-glass farm distillery on the Ards Peninsula, and the home of the revived Dunville’s whiskey.
Glendalough Distillery
A Wicklow craft distillery that began with poitín and gin, now making finished whiskeys, and owned by Mark Anthony Brands.
Great Northern Distillery
Built in a former Harp brewery in Dundalk, and making whiskey for more than 30 other brands.
Hinch Distillery
A purpose-built distillery on County Down’s Killaney Estate, making triple-distilled single malt and gin.
Kilbeggan Distillery
The midlands distillery with the working waterwheel, Cooley’s sister site and a licence dating to 1757.
Killowen Distillery
A tiny, experimental Mourne distillery on Carlingford Lough, with a cult following and a long list of odd casks.
Lough Gill Distillery
A Sligo single malt distillery on the Hazelwood Estate, renamed Hawk’s Rock by Sazerac in 2025.
Midleton Distillery
Ireland’s biggest whiskey distillery in Co. Cork, home of Jameson, Redbreast, Powers and the Spot range.
Pearse Lyons Distillery
A working distillery inside a former Dublin church, founded by Alltech’s Dr Pearse Lyons and still family-owned.
Powerscourt Distillery
Wicklow distillery in an old estate mill, home of Fercullen whiskey, now heading for US ownership after receivership.
Rademon Estate Distillery
Family-run County Down distillery, best known for Shortcross Gin and now making Irish whiskey too.
Roe & Co Distillery
Diageo’s Irish whiskey distillery in a former Guinness power station in the Liberties.
Slane Distillery
Irish whiskey from the stables of Slane Castle, backed by Brown-Forman of Jack Daniel’s fame.
Teeling Whiskey Distillery
The family-founded distillery that put whiskey-making back in Dublin’s Liberties, now owned outright by Bacardi.
The Shed Distillery
A family distillery in a Leitrim jam factory, best known for Gunpowder gin and Connacht’s first whiskey in over a century.
Titanic Distillers
A whiskey distillery in the historic Titanic Pumphouse, bringing distilling back to Belfast after nearly 90 years.
Tullamore Distillery
The Offaly distillery that brought Tullamore D.E.W. home after about sixty years of being made elsewhere.
Waterford Distillery
The Irish distillery that built its whole range on single-farm barley, now under new ownership after receivership.
Akkeshi Distillery
A young peated-malt distillery on the foggy Hokkaido coast, releasing its whisky one solar term at a time.
Asaka Distillery
A Fukushima sake brewer’s small malt distillery in a converted warehouse, home of Yamazakura and once a safe house for the Hanyu casks.
Chichibu Distillery
Ichiro Akuto’s independent Saitama malt distillery: small pot stills, Mizunara washbacks and its own floor maltings.
Chita Distillery
Suntory’s seaside grain distillery: three styles of corn whisky, and the quiet backbone of its blends.
Eigashima Distillery
A sake maker’s whisky distillery in Akashi, with a licence dating back to 1919 and a single malt relaunched in 2026.
Fuji Gotemba Distillery
Kirin’s malt-and-grain distillery on Mount Fuji: the Japanese whisky giant behind the Fuji single grain.
Hakushu Distillery
Suntory’s forest distillery: fresh, leafy, lightly smoky malt from a mountainside in the Southern Japanese Alps.
Kaikyo Distillery
A glass-walled distillery on the Akashi Strait, run beside a sake brewery and making Hatozaki whisky.
Kanosuke Distillery
A shochu family’s beachfront whisky distillery in Kagoshima, ageing malt in ex-shochu casks by the East China Sea.
Mars Shinshu Distillery
Japan’s highest whisky distillery, now called Mars Komagatake, in the Nagano Alps at 798 metres.
Mars Tsunuki Distillery
Hombo Shuzo’s warm-climate malt distillery in Kagoshima, with a 1956 iron tower and a free self-guided tour.
Matsui Distillery
A Tottori shochu house turned whisky maker, with Kurayoshi pure malts, Mount Daisen water and a candid sourcing story.
Miyagikyo Distillery
Nikka’s second distillery: soft, fruity malt from steam-heated stills in a Sendai valley, plus the famous Coffey stills.
Nagahama Distillery
A brewpub’s tiny stills in an Edo-period rice warehouse on Lake Biwa, making single-cask malt.
Niseko Distillery
A Hakkaisan-owned forest distillery in Niseko, Hokkaido, selling gin while its whisky matures.
Nukada Distillery
A small hybrid-still distillery beside the Hitachino Nest brewery in Ibaraki, with a much bigger sister site at Yasato.
Okayama Distillery
A century-old Okayama sake brewery with a small whisky distillery and a taste for Mizunara casks.
Ontake Distillery
A sherry-cask whisky distillery on a Kagoshima mountainside, with a volcano view, an onsen and its own golf course.
Saburomaru Distillery
A Toyama sake brewer’s revived whisky distillery, home of the cast-bronze ZEMON still and tarot-labelled peated malts.
Sakurao Distillery
A Hiroshima craft distillery on the Seto Inland Sea, with a vacuum still and a railway-tunnel warehouse for its Togouchi whisky.
Shizuoka Distillery
Gaiaflow’s mountain distillery behind Shizuoka City, where one pot still is fired with local cedar and another came from Karuizawa.
Yamazaki Distillery
Japan’s first malt whisky distillery, built by Suntory in 1923 in a misty valley between Osaka and Kyoto.
Yoichi Distillery
Nikka’s original distillery on the Hokkaido coast, founded by Masataka Taketsuru in 1934, where coal is still shovelled under the stills.
Yuza Distillery
Yamagata’s small shochu-maker-built malt distillery at the foot of Mount Chokai, run by two young distillers.
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United States
American region hub →A. Smith Bowman Distillery
Angel’s Envy Distillery
Balcones Distilling
Bardstown Bourbon Company
Barton 1792 Distillery
Black Dirt Distillery
Hudson Valley bourbon and rye, made on the famous black dirt farmland.
Booker Noe Distillery
Buffalo Trace
Bulleit Distilling Co.
Cascade Hollow Distilling Co.
Castle & Key Distillery
Catoctin Creek Distilling Co.
Catskill Distilling Company
Craft bourbon and rye from the Catskill Mountains.
Cedar Ridge Distillery
Chattanooga Whiskey Experimental Distillery
Coppersea Distilling
Floor-malted, small-batch whiskey from the Hudson Valley.
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Finger Lakes Distilling
Grain-to-glass whiskey on the shores of Seneca Lake.
Four Roses Distillery
Garrison Brothers Distillery
Green River Distilling Co.
Heaven Hill Bernheim Distillery
Hillrock Estate Distillery
A field-to-glass distillery on a Hudson Valley estate.
Jack Daniel Distillery
Lynchburg’s charcoal-mellowed Tennessee whiskey, and the best-selling American whiskey in the world.
James B. Beam Distilling Co.
James E. Pepper Distillery
Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co.
Kings County Distillery
Limestone Branch Distillery
Lux Row Distillers
Maker’s Mark Distillery
Michter’s Fort Nelson Distillery
Nelson’s Green Brier Distillery
New Riff Distilling
Old Forester Distillery
Ross & Squibb Distillery
Sagamore Spirit Distillery
Still Austin Whiskey Co.
Stranahan’s Distillery
Tuthilltown Spirits
New York's first licensed whiskey distillery since Prohibition.
Uncle Nearest Distillery
Virginia Distillery Co.
Westland Distillery
Widow Jane Distillery
Brooklyn bourbon, cut with limestone water from a Rosendale mine.
Wild Turkey Distillery
Wilderness Trail Distillery
Willett Distillery
Woodford Reserve Distillery
Canada
Canadian region hub →Alberta Premium
Proper 100% rye, made in Calgary, and a good deal drier than the average Canadian.
Canadian Club
The original “CC and ginger”, from Windsor, Ontario, and one of the oldest names in the business.
Crown Royal
The purple-bagged giant of Canadian whisky, made in Gimli, Manitoba.
Forty Creek
A craft-minded blend from Grimsby, Ontario, with every grain aged on its own.
Glenora Distillery
Canada’s first single malt distillery, and the Cape Breton rebels who won the “Glen” fight.
Gooderham & Worts
An old Toronto name with a long memory, revived as a modern blend.
Lot 40
100% rye, made the old-fashioned way and not shy about it.
Shelter Point Distillery
A working farm on Vancouver Island that grows its own barley and turns it into single malt.
Australia
Australian region hub →Archie Rose Distilling Co.
Sydney's urban craft distillery, with a rye malt twist.
Bakery Hill Distillery
An early Australian single malt pioneer, from Melbourne.
Hellyers Road Distillery
Tasmania's large-scale single malt distillery, in Burnie.
Lark Distillery
The distillery that restarted Tasmanian whisky.
Limeburners
Single malt from Albany on Western Australia's south coast.
Overeem Whisky
Tasmanian single malt, aged in port, sherry and bourbon casks.
Starward
Melbourne's wine-cask whisky, bold and quick to mature.
Sullivan’s Cove
Australia's most decorated single malt, from Tasmania.
India
Indian region hub →Advertisement
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