How did Ardnamurchan Distillery start?- Managing Director Alex Bruce

From Whisky Stories Podcast by Graeme Kilgour

April 2, 2026 · 1h 54m

About this episode

Alex Bruce shares the story of how Ardnamurchan Distillery was founded and his journey in the whisky industry.

We're HUGE fans of Ardnamurchan on the podcast. So it made sense for us to find out the story of how it started. Alex Bruce is the Managing Director of Ardnamurchan and Adelphi. In this episode he talks us through how he started out at Adelphi in 2004 with nothing more than a black book of contacts, a filing cabinet, fax machine and 3 casks. From there he grew Adelphi into a premium highly sought after Independent Bottler and then made the decision it was time to build a distillery. This was a lot of fun and there were some amazing drams he was kind enough to bring in with him.

People in this episode

Host: Graeme Kilgour

Guest: Alex Bruce

Topics covered

Ardnamurchan Distillery
whisky production
independent bottling
distillery management
entrepreneurship

Keywords

Ardnamurchan
whisky
distillery
Adelphi
independent bottler
Alex Bruce
whisky stories

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ardnamurchan Distillery, Adelphi