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Springbank
The history of the Springbank distillery dates back to the 1600s, when the Mitchell family, founders of the distillery, moved to the town of Campbeltown in the Lowland region of Scotland. In 1828 the Springbank distillery was built on the site of Archibald Mitchell's illegal distillery; as the demand for it increases whisky in Campbeltown, William Mitchell, son of Archibold builds the Glengyle distillery in 1872, which will cease its activity in 1925.
However, the twentieth century marks a period of change in the choice of whisky by the consumer, so Springbank modifies its production by making a whisky lighter through drying the malt with charcoal instead of peat. Over the years the production of the Cambeltown distilleries sees its quality decrease to meet the growing demand for whisky, a process that leads Blended producers to leave Campbeltown to find better malts. Surviving the different crises of the whisky, Springbank manages to make room for itself and to obtain an excellent international reputation thanks also to a series of bottlings which consolidate the name of the distillery on the world stage.
In 2000, Archibold Mitchell's great-grandson, Hedley G. Wright, current president of Springbank, bought the Glengyle Distillery buildings and returned it to his family.
Springbank today is one of the three distilleries in Campbeltown and produces three different types of whisky: the Longrow whisky peat distilled for the first time in 1973; the Hazelburn, born in 1997, whisky unpeated and triple distilled and the renowned Springbank, which is made with lightly peated barley and distilled two and a half times.
