One of the Scotch whisky industry’s greatest secrets sits at the foot of the Ochil Hills. You may notice some warehouses close to the road as you drive past, but it’s more likely that your eyes will be drawn to Dumyat’s crags or the phallic thrust of the Wallace Monument on the near horizon. UDV’s Blackgrange site does not draw attention to itself, there’s nothing to indicate that there’s close to 3 million casks of whisky quietly maturing in 49 blocks of warehouses.
The scale is awesome. You are dwarfed by the massive black warehouses, your imagination struggles to picture what a billion bottles of whisky looks like.
Whisky is big, we know that but you onfcr realise how big when you drive down the avenues of Blackgrange. In the disgorging plant they are emptying up to 10,000 casks a week, at times the components for five different blends may be going out the same day.
Now imagine being in charge not just of all this maturing stock, but also in charge of the new make coming out of UDV’s 27 malt and 2 grain distilleries. That’s Turnbdi Hutton’s job. If you want to understand how a major blend is put...
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