Kingsbarns Journal

We’ve been open for a year! We celebrated our opening on St Andrews Day, 30th November, with get-together in the visitor centre. William Wemyss, from the Wemyss family owners, and Douglas Clement, Founder and Visitor Centre Manager lead proceedings by launching the Kingsbarns Distillery Founders’ Club. To celebrate the first anniversary, we re-lived some of the highlights from our first year. One of our talented guides, John, gave a rendition of the Burns poem John Barleycorn. We also heard the beautiful Burns song “Tak’ a Dram” from Louise. One of the most popular parts of the day was our amazing...

The Kingsbarns Distillery Founders' Club will launch on St Andrews day 2015 and will be open to just 3000 members. This is a unique chance to be a part of the Kingsbarns Distillery story from the very beginning and particuarly during these exciting first years of production. Members will receive a welcome pack containing 200ml bottle of Kingsbarns New Spirit, branded Kingsbarns Founders' Club Glencairn glass and membership badge to wear proudly! As a member of our Founders’ Club you will be one of the first to own single malt whisky from our distillery when you receive a bottle of...

We are delighted to announce that bottles of Kingsbarns Distillery New Make Spirit are now for sale at the Visitor Centre and on our online shop. Distilling started in January 2015 and Distllery Manager, Peter Holroyd, and his team are so delighted with the quality of the spirit being produced that it was decided to bottle some for all to try as well as filling it into casks. Scotch Whisky has to mature for at least 3 years and a day in oak casks and so the launch of the new make spirit will give visitors and curious whisky drinkers...

3rd June 2015 Golf and whisky are a natural pairing and never more so than at Kingsbarns, where the story of how the distillery began is tied closely to the sport. As we welcome The Open to St Andrews, we have created The 19th Hole Tour to offer a great way to relax after watching the golf at St Andrews or indeed playing on one of Fife’s many other courses. Between Monday 13th July and Sunday 19th July 2015, enjoy a unique evening tour of the distillery at the later times of 17.30, 18.30 and 19.30. At the end of...