Annandale Distillery

David Thomson and Teresa Church bought the derelict Annandale Distillery in Annan in 2007 and returned it to production by 2014, after a 10.5 million pound restoration of a site first built in 1836. The whisky comes in two core styles, Man O'Words, an unpeated single malt, and Man O'Sword, a peated expression, both named for historical figures tied to the Annandale area rather than generic brand names. Every bottling is drawn from a single cask rather than vatted together, an approach the distillery presents as central to its identity as Scotland's only single cask single malt producer. Robert Burns worked as an exciseman in the district, a connection the distillery draws on in naming its unpeated range. The visitor centre sits on the Northfield site on the edge of Annan.