Distillery

The Cairn

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The Cairn is a modern distillery located in the Cairngorms National Park (Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland), owned by the historic company Gordon & MacPhail. It launched the CRN57° range of blended malts that anticipates the aromatic profiles of the single malts that will mature at the distillery in the future.
whisky blended malt single malt Speyside whisky
Producer range

Producer range The Cairn

Spirit categories

whisky blended malt single malt Speyside whisky

Representative products

Whisky CRN57° 12 YO 70cl - The Cairn Whisky CRN57° 18 YO 70cl - The Cairn

Raw materials

barley water yeast

Casks and ageing vessels

sherry casks selected casks from Gordon & MacPhail's stock
Distillation and production

Distillation and production

Production method

Production of malt whisky with a full-lauter mash tun, fermentation in stainless-steel washbacks and distillation on a multi-still plant (number of stills: 6). Shell-and-tube condensers are used; production parameters are designed for spirits intended for long maturation.

Distillation

Pot stills (6) with shell-and-tube condensers; full-lauter mash tun and stainless-steel washbacks; process calibrated to produce new make intended for long maturation.

Ageing

Extended maturation in selected casks; the CRN57° range was created using Gordon & MacPhail's stock of matured casks and aims to express profiles obtained from long aging (including finishing in sherry cask).

Producer history The Cairn

The Cairn is the distillation project developed by Gordon & MacPhail, a fourth-generation family company known for selecting and maturing whisky. The facility opened in 2022 near Grantown-on-Spey in the Cairngorms National Park; the initiative was born from the group's intention to complete the production cycle by transforming decades of experience in cask selection and maturation into its own spirits production.

Production philosophy

Building the future from experience: The Cairn presents itself as a modern operation focused on maturation quality and cask selection, leveraging Gordon & MacPhail's stock of matured casks to create expressions that anticipate the character of the single malts that will be produced on site.

Territory

Grantown-on-Spey, Cairngorms National Park (57° N), Speyside / Highlands, Scotland

The Cairn

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