About Glenturret
(glen-TURRET) Glenturret traces its recorded history to 1763, when a rental document referred to Thurot Distillery, the earliest known name for the site. In 1814, the distillery was sold to Thomas MacInnes, who renamed it The Hosh Distillery, and the Glenturret name was introduced in 1873. Its history was not uninterrupted: production stopped in 1923 during the difficult years that followed Prohibition and the wider downturn in Scotch, before James Fairlie bought and revived the distillery in 1957 after more than 30 silent years.
The distillery describes itself as Scotland’s oldest working distillery, and it has long been associated with a more traditional, hands-on approach to whisky-making. Alfred Barnard remarked on that old-fashioned character as far back as the 19th century, and in 1980 Glenturret opened one of Scotland’s earliest distillery visitor centres. A more recent chapter began in 2019, when the distillery was acquired by a joint venture led by Lalique Group and Hansjörg Wyss, followed in 2020 by a new single malt range created by Bob Dalgarno.