| Country | scotland |
| Region | Campbeltown |
| Established | |
| Owner | |
| Type | Malt |
| Number of stills | |
| Visitor center | No |
| Status | Closed |
| Phone | n/a |
Drumore Distillery was a Scotch whisky distillery located near Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. Its exact founding date has not survived in the historical record, but it was closed and demolished in 1847, making it one of the earliest of Campbeltown's many 19th-century distilleries to disappear. Almost nothing beyond its name, location, and closure date is documented today, a reflection of how many small operations opened and shut during the town's crowded whisky-making boom.
Campbeltown grew into one of Scotland's foremost whisky-producing towns during the 19th century, at its peak home to more than 30 licensed distilleries and known to the trade as "the whisky capital of the world." Drumore was one of this large cluster of Campbeltown distilleries, but unlike the majority of the town's distilleries — which closed in a well-documented wave during the 1920s and 1930s under the pressure of American Prohibition, overproduction, and the Great Depression — Drumore's closure came far earlier, in 1847. This places it among the shortest-lived and least-documented of Campbeltown's historic distilleries; no detailed operating history, ownership records, or production figures for Drumore are known to survive in standard whisky reference sources, which list it only by name, location, and closure date.
Drumore closed and was demolished in 1847. No buildings are known to survive at the site, and because the distillery vanished so early and left almost no documentary trail, no casks or bottlings of Drumore whisky are known to exist today. It is essentially unrepresented in the whisky collectors' market, unlike some later-closing Campbeltown distilleries whose bottles occasionally surface at auction. Drumore is remembered chiefly as one of the many names on the long roster of Campbeltown's vanished distilleries — a reminder of how concentrated, and how fragile, whisky production once was in a town that today retains just three working distilleries: Glen Scotia, Glengyle, and Springbank.
Drumore distillery is from Campbeltown, scotland.
You can buy Drumore whisky at Glenbotal.co.uk. We currently stock a selection with free UK delivery on orders over £99.
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