About Annandale
(AN-an-dale) Annandale was founded in 1830 by George Donald near Annan in Dumfries and Galloway. Johnnie Walker & Sons bought the distillery in 1896, but closed it in 1921 as the company focused on developing its blended whisky business. The site later passed to the Robinson family, with parts of the old distillery used for Provost porridge oats and the remaining buildings falling into disrepair.
David Thomson and Teresa Church bought the site in 2007 and carried out a major restoration, bringing Annandale back into production in November 2014 after 95 years silent. The distillery now produces two single malt styles: Man O’Words, an unpeated whisky named after Robert Burns, and Man O’Sword, a peated whisky named after Robert the Bruce, the seventh Lord of Annandale.
Annandale focuses on single cask single malt, with whisky matured and bottled one cask at a time rather than vatted into large batches. Production uses both peated and unpeated malt, traditional Douglas fir washbacks and copper stills designed with input from Dr Jim Swan, giving the distillery a distinctive place among modern Lowland producers.