The Adelphi Distillery is one of the lost distilleries of Scotland. It operated from 1826 to around 1907, and in 1880, the distillery was bought by Messrs A. Walker and Co. Walker’s great-grandson, Jamie Walker, restored the Adelphi brand in 1993, this time not as a distillery but as an independent bottler.

Jamie Walker appointed Charlie Maclean as chief Adelphi nose to help assist with the important job of cask selection and writing tasting notes. Charlie is still involved with the brand and recently had his first ever bottle of whisky named after him, the Maclean & Bruce bottle, a five-year-old Ardnamurchan Single Malt bottled by Adelphi. 

The Adelphi Selection changed ownership in 2003 when Alex Bruce joined the company as their Managing Director. Charlie remained on the team to continue assisting with cask selection and events. The company now has a sales and marketing team of five people and a fully operational bottling hall and warehouse in Fife with a team of ten.

The criteria for whisky to become an Adelphi selection bottle include rarity and maturity, but above all, flavour. Adelphi whiskies are both rare and sought after. Every single cask of whisky matures its contents very differently, imparting its own character to the whisky it holds, and, as a result, there are never two Adelphi bottlings that are quite the same.

Most recently, in 2014, Adelphi started distilling their own whisky at the Ardnamurchan Distillery situated in the beautiful, rugged West highland peninsula, Ardnamurchan.