This year marks an important stage in the development of Mossburn Distillers as we move towards completing our new whisky facility near Jedburgh.
For some time, our maturation warehouses, blending operations and bottling lines have operated across separate locations. The decision to bring them together onto a single, integrated 50-acre site is a natural progression in how we see the business evolving.
Over the next eighteen months, our team will undertake the transfer of approximately 50,000 casks from our existing storage locations to the new site. Each barrel will be inspected in full before being laid down again, whether in racked, dunnaged or palletised warehousing. The diversity of warehouse types reflects the different maturation behaviours we look to preserve and encourage across our stocks.
By mid-summer, we expect to relocate both our automated bottling line and our single-cask bottling operation from Tweedbank to Jedburgh. For the first time, maturation, blending and bottling will sit side by side. From a practical perspective, this allows greater efficiency in how we work; more importantly, it allows closer oversight of the whisky at every stage of its development.
This is a transformative moment for the business. Centralising our operations at Jedburgh gives us the space to invest properly in long-term quality, sustainability and scale. It provides the capacity to nurture our whiskies with care while ensuring the infrastructure is in place for the next phase of growth.
The Jedburgh development represents the most significant whisky infrastructure project undertaken in the Scottish Borders. Once fully operational, it will become the centre of our production and maturation activities, supporting both our established brands and those that will follow.
Neil MacLeod Mathieson, Whiskymaker
