Scapa
Scapa is a historic distillery in the Orkney Islands, located in the town of Kirkwall, on the island of Mainland, just a short walk from the sea and overlooking Scapa Flow bay, famous for being an important base of the British Royal Navy. This bay became famous at the end of World War I for the scuttling of the German fleet, carried out to prevent the English from seizing the ships, and for being an important center for the imprisonment of Italian soldiers during World War II.
The Scapa Distillery is less than a kilometer from Highland Park and is the second northernmost distillery in Scotland. Founded in 1885 by two visionary Scottish master distillers, Townsend and MacFarlane, who equipped it with cutting-edge technologies for the time, it underwent various events throughout the twentieth century, until it was definitively closed in 1994 and occasionally used by Highland Park. It was reopened only in 2005, when production was restarted, respecting the unpeated style that has always characterized the distillery.
The production of Scapa Single Malt whisky is now conducted by five Scottish artisans coordinated by master distiller Brian MacAulay. Unlike all other production realities in the Scottish islands, the Scapa distillery does not use peat for drying barley. To absolutely avoid any peaty notes, water from the nearby Lingro Burn spring is preferred over that from the more distant Orquil Springs, transported through special pipes. Distillation is conducted using two stills, including a historic Lomond wash-still from the old Glemnburgie distillery, installed in 1959. Thanks to its very wide and long copper neck, it manages to create very rich and fruity spirits. In this way, particularly smooth, sweet and velvety Single Malts are born, characterized by warm notes of honey and cereals.
Scapa is a historic distillery in the Orkney Islands, located in the town of Kirkwall, on the island of Mainland, just a short walk from the sea and overlooking Scapa Flow bay, famous for being an important base of the British Royal Navy. This bay became famous at the end of World War I for the scuttling of the German fleet, carried out to prevent the English from seizing the ships, and for being an important center for the imprisonment of Italian soldiers during World War II.
The Scapa Distillery is less than a kilometer from Highland Park and is the second northernmost distillery in Scotland. Founded in 1885 by two visionary Scottish master distillers, Townsend and MacFarlane, who equipped it with cutting-edge technologies for the time, it underwent various events throughout the twentieth century, until it was definitively closed in 1994 and occasionally used by Highland Park. It was reopened only in 2005, when production was restarted, respecting the unpeated style that has always characterized the distillery.
The production of Scapa Single Malt whisky is now conducted by five Scottish artisans coordinated by master distiller Brian MacAulay. Unlike all other production realities in the Scottish islands, the Scapa distillery does not use peat for drying barley. To absolutely avoid any peaty notes, water from the nearby Lingro Burn spring is preferred over that from the more distant Orquil Springs, transported through special pipes. Distillation is conducted using two stills, including a historic Lomond wash-still from the old Glemnburgie distillery, installed in 1959. Thanks to its very wide and long copper neck, it manages to create very rich and fruity spirits. In this way, particularly smooth, sweet and velvety Single Malts are born, characterized by warm notes of honey and cereals.
