"The most interesting bottle of British whisky right now does not come from Islay or Speyside, but from a converted metal factory in Derbyshire. Deep among the snow-dusted hills of the Peak District, on the banks of the River Derwent, lies a vast, former metalworks. A rusty old bridge connects a building - packed with stainless steel vats and shiny copper stills - to a warehouse, where hundreds of barrels of English whisky sit aging beneath a moss-covered corrugated roof."
"Late last year, their Wire Works Bourbon Barrel whisky was named The Whisky Exchange's Whisky of the Year - the first time an English whisky has won the prize. See also: The Secret to Great Finnish Whisky? It Starts in a Sauna "It certainly made a huge impact," says Vaughan from his office overlooking the river. "We sold more of that particular release in a month than we normally do in nine.""
A Derbyshire distillery operating in a converted metalworks produces celebrated English whisky with distinctive bottles shaped to reflect the site's industrial past. The Wire Works Bourbon Barrel release won The Whisky Exchange's Whisky of the Year, driving a major sales surge. English whisky experienced a modern revival after the last historic distillery closed in 1903, with the English Whisky Company laying down spirit in 2006 and later winning World's Best Single Malt in 2024. That distillery released a claimed first 18-year-old English single malt in 2025 at a high price point, which sold out rapidly.
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