A distillery at the crossing of Celtic and Breton civilizations :

Glann ar Mor Distillery, which is situated on the Northern coast of Brittany, was built to enable Celtic Whisky Compagnie to offer whiskies from Breton origin to connoisseurs, in complement to these originating from Scotland and Ireland, offering thus a full range of authentic whiskies from Celtic origin.

The construction of this distillery which started operation in June 2005 had been the conclusion of no less than nine years of research and preparation.

But, if one has to wait for a minimum of 3 years in order for the first distillation of malt spirit to become whisky, this did not prevent the distillery to release its first Breton Single Malt whisky at the beginning of the year 2005.

TAOL ESA, or "The Essay" in Breton language, distilled and filled in cask on 31 December 1999, was made available as a -very- limited edition of 99 bottles of 50 cl just before the actual start of Glann ar Mor distillery in June 2005. To discover it and to understand the how and why of this apparent paradox, all the information and pictures are available on the TAOL ESA 1999 page.

By its geographical settling, the distillery benefits logically from the double heritage of Celtic and French cultures and traditions, as far as production of spirits is concerned. If Celtic people are the unquestionable reference for the making of whisky, there exists in France a knowledge of great richness, as far as distillation and spirit maturation themselves are concerned (Cognac, Armagnac, Calvados...).

The ambition of Glann ar Mor is to gather the best assets of these two worlds, in view of offering a whisky with no compromise in its quality and its character : an authentic whisky in the Celtic tradition with a Breton heart.

For doing so, nothing was left to chance, starting with the first of all choices : that of the distillery's location. It had been done in view of criteria which will make it possible for the whisky to be matured in conditions which can be regarded as exceptionnal, due to the climatic environnement and to the presence of the sea.

Also, Glann ar Mor benefits naturally from the experience of Celtic Whisky Compagnie, as far as whisky maturation is oncerned, in particular with the use of Sauternes casks, the interest of which has no more to be proven.

Last, for a limited period of time, we are offering to amateurs the possibility to buy "en primeur" their own cask of whisky from Glann ar Mor.

To discover the setting and the presentation
of Glann ar Mor, click on
the yellow spot on this photography of Brittany

Satellite picture ISS002-E-9053 from Brittany, courtesy of Earth Sciences
and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov)


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