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Glengoyne Marketing Director Iain Weir, WWT Corporate Relations Manager John Creedon and Glengoyne Distillery Manager Robbie Hughes toast the opening of Glengoyne’s new wetlands area.

Glengoyne Highland Single Malt will become the exclusive whisky partner of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in time for the official opening of a brand new wetlands area onsite at the Distillery, which will help with processing distillery waste and make the area a haven for wildlife.

Glengoyne Distillery, which is situated just 30 minutes outside Glasgow, in the Trossachs National Park and at the start of the West Highland Way has been producing exceptional single malt whisky for nearly 200 years.

It uses only the slowest distillation process, untainted by peat smoke, to create Glengoyne with it’s motto: THE REAL TASTE OF MALT.

As part of it’s green commitment, Glengoyne Distillery has invested £170,000 on the facility which deals with the effluent from the spirit stills called Spent Lees. This reduces waste by around 25% and deals with it in an environmentally friendly manner. The wetland plants were bedded in early May to acclimatise and have now begun processing waste liquid from whisky making.

As a further commitment to wetlands, the distillery has promised a minimum contribution of £5,000 to Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in the first twelve months of the long term partnership, to be raised through contributions from sales of special bottles of malt whisky.
Glengoyne will donate £3.00 on all personalised bottles and £4.50 on all standard bottles of the core range purchased online using a special code available to Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust members.

The agreement will also see other joint marketing and fundraising initiatives with the charity including limited edition bottlings, discount on Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust membership, on-pack promotions and joint events. The partnership kicked off in early June with a special Father’s Day promotion.

Robbie Hughes, Distillery Manager at Glengoyne said: “We are always looking at options for improving our waste management and wetlands seemed like the perfect solution. It allows us to reduce waste, cut down on waste transportation, be more environmentally friendly and will attract a huge range of wildlife to the area, which is already renowned for its geese.

“We are also investigating further environmental improvements including Anaerobic Digesters to generate gas for our boiler from another one of our effluent streams.”

Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust is a leading UK conservation organisation saving wetlands for wildlife and people across the world by creating, restoring and monitoring wetlands and the wildlife that depends on them. Wetlands are among the world’s most productive environments and support great biodiversity. They are, for example, havens for birds from storks to swans and ducks to divers.

Glengoyne Distillery Manager Robbie Hughes and Learning Manager at Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust Caerlaverock , Dumfriesshire Brian Morrell toast the opening of Glengoyne’s new wetlands area.

John Creedon, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust’s Corporate Relations Manager said “New wetlands like this quickly become home to moths and beetles and even water voles, which in turn start to support and attract birds and potentially larger mammals like otters. Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust were keen to link with Glengoyne because of their commitment to the environment and because the name ‘Glengoyne’ means “Glen of the Wild Geese” in Gaelic, and Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust’s Caerlaverock Wetland Centre in Dumfriesshire, within easy reach of the distillery, is the winter home of tens of thousands of barnacle geese from Svalbard.”

Glengoyne can be bought from The Whisky Exchange and Master of Malt