Last Scottish region to get a Distillery

by Andrew Barrow, Posted Apr 15th 2006 @ 11:01AM

The UK's most northerly radar station - RAF Saxa Vord in the Shetland Islands is to get the islands first whisky distillery. The distillery will also take on the crown of being Scotland's most northerly.

The RAF base closed last month with the building of the distillery, which should be finished later this year, the job losses will be negated. Blackwood Distillers was set up four years ago and currently produces gin, vodka, and a vodka liqueur which have helped Blackwood win a Scottish Exporter of the Year title.

As well as using local peat and the famed local water - famed for its clarity - Blackwood intends to use an old strain of 'bare' barley which has been grown on Unst for the last 5000 years which will make it totally distinctive. It could be several years before the whisky is exported though.

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