Campbeltown single malts

The reason for this decline was that the town was "churning out whisky in volume ... with little concern for quality", according to a 2018 book that covers the entire industry and its history.

In recent years, there is a growing interest in reviving Campbeltown's historic single malt whisky industry, with two new distilleries currently under construction,[3][4] and another new distillery announced [5] A 2019 review indicated that the whisky produced here offers notes of "dried fruit, vanilla, toffee, and brine within a dry and pungent body".

The Visit Scotland web site is more specific, defining Springbank malts as "robust and smoky with hints of their maritime roots",[6] the Glen Scotia single malts as "lighter with grassy notes"[7] and Glengyle's Kilkerran whisky as "lighter and sweeter, but with the distinctive oily and salty notes".

[8] Modern Campbeltown single malts are also typically described as having a distinct "industrial funk" - said to be reminiscent of mechanical oils or creosote, vegetal matter, mushrooms, wet sacks, and mulch [9] - in their flavor profiles that characterize them from whisky produced by the four other recognized Scottish distilling localities (Lowland, Highland, Speyside, and Islay).

Campbeltown is a "protected locality" for Scotch Whisky distilling under UK Government legislation.