Gleann Mòr Spirits appoints Matt McKay to reawaken
The London Distillery Firm
Gleann Mòr Spirits, the family-owned spirits producer, immediately introduced that it had appointed Matt McKay as Managing Director and Whisky Maker of The London Distillery Firm.
Becoming a member of the enterprise in January 2025, Matt will lead the revitalisation of the distillery (which operated in Battersea and Bermondsey in London from 2011 – 2020), following the acquisition of the corporate by Gleann Mòr Spirits in 2023.
Respiratory new life into The London Distillery Firm (TLDC), which was London’s first whisky distillery because the Lea Valley Distillery closed in 1903, Matt will initially craft expressions from the remaining single malt whisky shares initially produced by the TLDC. Alongside this, he will even draw from, and mix casks produced by modern-era English whisky producers, replicating the model and character that the Gleann Mòr Spirits workforce anticipate for the way forward for TLDC.
Matt brings with him a wealth of remarkable expertise within the whisky trade, most just lately from his positions as Director of Whisky Creation and Outreach at Dunphail Distillery and Director of Communications at Bimber Distillery, the place he performed an integral position in establishing the distillery as a number one mild in craft whisky manufacturing.
Commenting on the appointment, the Firm mentioned:
“We’re delighted to welcome Matt to the Gleann Mòr household. He’s the right particular person to steer the revitalisation of The London Distillery Firm, bringing with him excellent information of the whisky trade, and English whisky particularly. Gleann Mòr has grown considerably over the previous couple of years, and the rebirth of TLDC is a crucial and thrilling a part of our formidable subsequent chapter.”
Matt added:
“This isn’t only a position for me, it’s a deep-seated ardour, and I due to this fact couldn’t be prouder to be main a renewed TLDC. While the corporate has waxed and waned many occasions because it was first established by Ralph Dodd in 1807, alongside the extremely proficient Gleann Mòr Spirits workforce, I’m drastically wanting ahead to inspiring fanatics all over the world to find and recognize each the previous and the intense new way forward for TLDC.”
Along with his place main TLDC, Matt will even help Gleann Mòr’s wider operations, together with ‘Uncommon Discover’ – the corporate’s extremely regarded independently bottled whisky collection. Drawing from his intensive information and expertise, Matt will help the Gleann Mòr workforce’s strategic progress aspirations and help with broadening the visibility and appreciation of the corporate’s most interesting single malt whiskies and highest high quality spirits.
The London Distillery Firm: https://londondistillery.co.uk/
About Gleann Mòr Spirits
Now we have a variety of distinctively scrumptious premium drinks manufacturers with an uncompromising strategy to liquid creation and superior branding.
Our Edinburgh HQ and stillhouse, features a bottling facility on website, which allows us to get our merchandise to market shortly and our improvement workforce is continually on the look-out for rising developments.
From our Uncommon Discover cask releases, handpicked from the best single malt distilleries throughout Scotland, to our intensive vary of blended whisky, gins, rums and pre-mixed cocktails, we don’t compromise, and we don’t reduce corners. So, when you find yourself sipping one in every of our sublimely easy and satisfying spirits, you’ll realize it’s been made and chosen to our exacting requirements.
Our enterprise started again in 2015 from the household kitchen, however immediately, we a have a manufacturing facility and Stillhouse the place we produce and bottle distinctive, award-winning premium gins and different spirit merchandise utilizing fashionable distillation strategies to protect the richness of flavour and aromas along with the most effective substances to make sure each sip is one thing particular.
