The Perth Distilling Company

The Perth Distilling Company History

The Morrison family’s involvement with Scotch whisky stretches back to the early 20th century, when Stanley P. Morrison established a whisky brokerage in Glasgow.

Morrison went on to purchase Bowmore (1963), Glen Garioch (1970) and Auchentoshan (1984) distilleries before the company – by now Morrison Bowmore Distillers and under the control of Stanley’s sons, Stanley W. (known as Tim) and Brian – was sold to Suntory in 1994.

The family went on to acquire a majority stake in the Scottish Liqueur Centre in Bankfoot in 2005, establishing Morrison & Mackay as an independent bottler and blender.

However the family was intent on returning to distilling. In 2014, Tim and his son Stanley Andrew began work building a distillery and visitor centre at Glasgow’s historic Pump House (Clydeside distillery), while Brian, Kate and Jamie founded Perth Distilling Company, an entity entirely separate from Morrison & Mackay, to build and operate a distillery at their cereal farm in Aberargie.

Perth Distilling Company broke ground on the distillery – which is adjacent to the new Morrison & Mackay bottling hall – in June 2016, and began distilling in November 2017.