Girvan

Girvan distillery was built in 1963 with the installation of its first Coffey still in 1963, which was celebrated with their first official bottling. The reason for William Grant & Sons building the distillery was because of a quarrel between the Grant family and the Distillers Company Limited (DCL). Under the close eye of Charles Grant Gordon, the Girvan distillery was built and producing alcohol within nine months of ground break. Girvan contributes for Grant’s and Clan MacGregor blended whisky. The company introduced its export single grain whisky, Black Barrel in 1985 to the Portugal, Spain and Italy markets.

Ladyburn distillery operated as a single malt distillery on site from 1965 until 1975 to make malts for the Grant’s blended whisky. The malt portion of the distillery was closed in 1975 and demolished in 1976.