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ORD over 12 years old 70o Proof
Distilled at Ord Distillery, Muir of Ord
Peter Dawson Limited, Glasgow

ORD 10 years old 56,9 %
CADENHEAD'S
AUTHENTIC COLLECTION
Cask Strenght
Distilled March 1985
Bottled July 1995
No additives
No colouring
No chill filtration

Highland Malt
The Northern Highlands
ORD (1838) also see Glen Ord
Ook bekend onder de namen Muir of Ord,, Glen Ordie, Glen Oran

October 2005

Diageo has announced that its 2005 Annual Rare Malts Selection will be the last.

The collection will consist of four cask strenght single malts from closed distilleries; Glen Mhor 28 years old, Millburn 35 years old, Glendullan 26 years old and Linkwood 30 years old.
Dr. Nicholas Morgan, global malts marketing director commented: 'As the Special Releases are now well established, it makes less sence to continue selecting and promoting a parallel series of Rare Malts with his own separate indentity'.
In future, all premium and rare whiskies will be made available in the annual Special Re-leases series.

Ord Distillery and Mailings
Muir of Ord, Ross-shire
Ord is in classic distilling country. The New Statistical Account of Scotland recorded in 1840 that "distilling of aquavitae" was the sole manufacture in the district. In addition to Ord Distillery, there were nine small stills in the parish. All were licensed, and all except one were worked by a co-operative group of ten or twelve tenant farmers. The entire barley crop was used for distilling - the quickest means of turning it into cash to pay the rent. The product was sold to "Highlanders from Lochaber, the extensive west coast of Ross-shire and the Isle of Skye".
Ord Distillery was established in 1838. The rights to an abundant supply of water, suitable for distilling, are said to have been attached at that time to a meal mill on the site, which was probably leased from the proprietor of Ord Estate. The first licence-holders were Robert Johnstone and Donald McLennan, trading asOrd Distillery Co. In 1843 Johnstone was involved in bankruptcy proceedings. This was also the fate of one of his successors, Alexander McLennan, who was discharged in 1871. After these escapades, the business was inherited by McLennan's widow. She prudently married a bank agent, Alexander McKenzie of Beauly. He was in charge when Ord was visited by Alfred Barnard, author of The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom, 1887.
The annual output of Ord was then 0 gallons (207,600 litres), sold mainly in Leith and London, and shipped to "Singapore, South Africa and other colonies". Barnard, who sampled many a dram on his Highland progress, "tasted some 1882 make and found it very agreeable to the palate". About this time, a proportion of the make was sold in bottle under the brand name Glen Oran.
Ord Distillery, its makings, manager's and workmen's houses, and the meal mill, were sold in 1896 by the owner of Ord Estate for £15,800 to James Watson & Co. Ltd., whisky blenders, of Dundee. This firm had already bought three Highland malt whisky distilleries, and invested much capital in improving the plant and extending the premises. Additional stills were installed, and two new malting blocks were built, with the effect of tripling production by 1901.
In common with all malt whisky distilleries, Ord was closed from 1917 to 1919 by Government order, in the interest of conserving barley for foodstuffs. Watson's was one of many Scotch whisky companies that went out of business at this time, because it was more profitable to go into voluntary liquidation, and realise assets, than to continue trading. Its distilleries were acquired in 1923 by John Dewar & Sons Ltd., whisky blenders, of Perth. After that company's amalgamation with The Distillers Company Limited, Ord was transferred to the ownership of Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd., another DCL subsidiary, in 1930. It was closed, again in the interest of conserving barley for foodstuffs, for the greater part of the second world war.

The distillery was lighted by paraffin lamps until it was connected to the electric grid in 1949. Until then a water turbine was the main source of power, supplemented by a horizontal steam engine of 40 h.p., made byG. Chrystal of Perth. Water power continued to be used for certain operations for another twelve years.
Ord was the main centre for experiments carried out by SMD in methods of heating pot stills. It had four stills, externally heated by hand-fired, coal-burning furnaces, in 1958. Two were converted in that year to heating by direct oil flame, with the distillates from each system being collected separately for comparison. The two direct oil flame stills were converted again, four years later, to internal heating by steam from an oil-fired boiler, when the distillates were again separately collected and compared. Finally, the two conventional stills were converted to steam heating, and two additional stills of the same type were added, in 1966.
This increase in productive capacity was made possible by the rebuilding and re-equipping of the entire distillery, which was completed in that year. The floor makings had already been converted in 1961 to a Saladin box system, followed by the rebuilding of the mash house, tun room and stillhouse in 1966. The meal mill, already converted 'into a plant for the manufacture of distiller's by-products, was demolished to make room for the present filling store.
A large mechanical drum makings was completed in 1968, to meet the needs of SMD's seven other distilleries in the northwest of Scotland and Skye. These distilleries had hitherto malted on their own sites but their combined capacity amounted to only one-third of the total amount of malt required. Ord itself continued to be supplied by its Saladin makings.
Barley for malting is conveyed by rail to Ord Siding in bulk waggons designed for this traffic. The train-load, about 600 tonnes, is discharged by gravitation to SMD's transfer silo and conveyed by road to silos in the Ord complex.
Ord Makings has been designed to permit the handling and processing of barley and malt in bulk. A system of remote controls, operated from a central panel in the plant house, governs every movement of barley and malt in and out of storage and from storage to process. The entire layout of the storage and conveying systems is illustrated in miniature on the panel, and sequence interlocks virtually preclude operational mistakes. In the drumhouse, barley is germinated in 18 drums, each with a capacity of 30 tonnes. When the barley has germinated it is moved to one of 4 kilns, where it is dried. Each kiln is fired by both oil and peat. The drying cycle lasts for 15 hours. One of the objects of kilning is to flavour the malt by the application of peat smoke.
The peat is cut locally. Cutting starts in March, or as soon as the weather permits. The cut peats are piled in stacks on the peat moss to allow natural drying by sun and wind. The peat is dry by the late summer and ready for transportation to the storage sheds at the makings. About 1,250 tonnes or 3,800 cubic metres of peat is used annually.
A dark grains plant was built at Ord Distillery, again in 1968, to convert the solid matter left over from the fermentation and distilling processes into a high-protein animal feedingstuff.

Ord takes both its distilling water and cooling water from Loch nan Eun and Loch nam Bonnach. They stand about one thousand feet (305 metres) above sea level, and are fed from springs rising in the encircling hills, or bubbling up from the bottom. Streams flowing from them join to form the Allt Fionnaidh (the "white burn") which supplies the distillery and the makings. Mashing water is collected in a cistern a short distance upstream and piped to the distillery; cooling water for the distillery, and steeping water for the makings, are conveyed by a mill lade to a dam at the distillery.
Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd. own 16 houses for occupation by employees. The holders of the distillery licence are John Dewar & Sons Ltd. of Perth, Scotland, proprietors of Dewar's White Label and Dewar's de luxe Ancestor Scotch whiskies. They market Glenordie 12 year old single malt whisky.

Pernot Ricard
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Pernod en Ricard fuseren
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1922 William Whiteley Ltd gesticht
1933 William Whiteley Ltd neemt Edradour, toen ook wel Glenforres genoemd, over
1938 Gekocht door een Amerikaanse financier
1978 Een andere Amerikaanse financier koopt de groep, handelsnaam is nu J.G. Turner & Co
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miljoen
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over
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Pernod Ricard
Na de overname, samen met Fortune Brands staande distilleerderijen in Schotland he
van Allied Domecq voor $ 14 miljard, zijn onder-t eigendom van Pernod Ricard.

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