About Caledonian (Silent)
(cal-uh-dow-nee-unn) Caledonian was founded in 1855 in Edinburgh’s Haymarket district, originally under the name Edinburgh Distillery before becoming better known as “The Cally”. Built during the growth of continuous distillation in Scotland, it became one of the country’s largest grain whisky distilleries and produced whisky for the blending trade using a large Coffey still, alongside two large pot stills used for an Irish-style grain whisky.
The distillery later became part of the Distillers Company Limited and, through industry consolidation, passed into what is now Diageo. Caledonian closed in 1988, with parts of the site later demolished or converted for other use. No regular official single grain range existed during its working life, so surviving Caledonian bottlings are mainly older independent releases and occasional rare official bottlings from closed-distillery collections.