Distillery
The Deveron
Where the River Deveron slips into the North Sea near Banff, in Scotland's Highland region, distillers built a new site in 1960. A group of four businessmen named their venture Glen Deveron Distillers, and the location was chosen mostly to feed the growing blended Scotch trade. Five small copper pot stills do the work here, paired with unusual horizontal condensers rather than the usual vertical ones. That shape coaxes out a lighter, fruitier spirit, one carrying apple, nut, and a faint tang of sea air. John Dewar & Sons, part of Bacardi, now owns the site and leans on it heavily for its William Lawson's blend. The single malt itself carries an odd distinction. Dewar's does not bottle it under the distillery's own name, Macduff. Instead it sells the malt as The Deveron, a rare case in Scotch whisky where the marketed brand differs from the site that makes it.
