New Distillery, Familiar Faces (WhiskyCast Episode 773: June 23, 2019)

If you're starting a new distillery from scratch, it helps to
find some veteran whisky makers to join you on the journey.
That's just what Ardgowan Distillery CEO Martin McAdam did when
he convinced former Macallan managing director Willie Phillips
and Edrington whisky maker Max McFarlane to come out of
retirement and join the team behind his fledgling distillery.
While final financing is still in the works for the distillery to
be built on the Ardgowan Estate on the banks of the River Clyde,
McFarlane is already blending Ardgowan's first release for its
fall debut - a blended malt to be sold under the Clydebuilt
label. We'll talk with Max McFarlane and Martin McAdam on
WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, the owners of Fets Whisky
Kitchen in Vancouver will appeal a British Columbia adjudicator's
ruling against them in the #FreeOurWhisky case, 18 months after
Fets was raided by provincial liquor inspectors for illegally
selling Scotch Malt Whisky Society whiskies. Cleanup work is
underway at the O.Z. Tyler Distillery in Owensboro, Kentucky
following the state's second rickhouse collapse in a year, and
we'll look at how rickhouse safety is regulated on Behind the
Label.