Lochlea Distillery appoints award-winning Grasp Blender Jill Boyd
Farm-to-cask Ayrshire distillery Lochlea is delighted to announce the appointment of Jill Boyd as their new Grasp Blender.
Boyd, initially from Elgin, is an award-winning blender who beforehand labored at William Grant & Sons as a Laboratory Analyst, earlier than becoming a member of Compass Field as Whisky Maker and Model Ambassador in 2017.
In 2020 she was awarded the title of Grasp Blender of the 12 months on the Scottish Icons of Whisky Awards.
In her new function, Boyd will oversee the creation of all new Lochlea whiskies, in addition to sustaining present award-winning spirit requirements.
On becoming a member of Lochlea, Jill mentioned: “I’m so thrilled to grow to be a part of the unbelievable workforce at Lochlea. With ardour and enthusiasm on the coronary heart of every little thing they do, I can’t wait to contribute to their journey and assist to form the way forward for their distinctive whisky.”
Proprietor of Lochlea, Neil McGeoch, provides: “I’m very excited that the chance arose for Jill to hitch the Lochlea workforce as our Grasp Blender. Her breadth, depth of expertise, and her success in mixing at Compass Field specifically, offers me nice confidence that Lochlea whisky is in excellent arms.”
About Lochlea Distillery:
Lochlea was initially a 222-acre livestock farm earlier than being bought by Neil and Jen McGeoch in 2006. After a lot consideration of the way forward for the farm and a profitable trial to develop its personal barley in 2015, the couple remodeled the land and present farm buildings into a totally operational distillery in 2017 and began distilling the next yr. The farming facet has remained a novel a part of Lochlea, with the transfer into barley manufacturing – paving the best way for Lochlea to be one of many only a few absolutely grain-to-cask distilleries in Scotland. It additionally has a wealthy Scottish heritage with robust hyperlinks to Robbie Burns, with the bard having labored and lived on the farm a a number of years.
Lochlea Distillery has not too long ago gained the next awards:
– Our Barley: Platinum (Las Vegas International Spirit Awards)
– Our Barley: Gold (Nice British Meals Awards)
