Fancy a wee dram?

A new community-owned Highland distillery has marked its latest construction milestone with the announcement that a new share offer will launch in August.

GlenWyvis Distillery Community Benefit Society has brought forward the launch of a second open share offer to open the door to new members, as visitor numbers to the area increase. The new share offer will be launched on Thursday August 3rd at the *Black Isle Show in the Scottish Highlands.

Increased tourism interest in the area has come about as a result of the North Coast 500 route taking in Dingwall, where GlenWyvis has set up its new Basecamp visitor centre. 

It has also seen an influx of "Outlander" fans adding GlenWyvis to their route map as they look for the site of the original "Ferintosh" distillery in the area - the whisky of choice of the time, by lead character "Jamie", before moving on to another Outlander pit-stop at nearby Castle Leod in Strathpeffer - the inspiration for Castle Leoch in the TV series.

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£2.25 million for Dingwall whisky venture

GLENWYVIS and Community Shares Scotland have hit the £2.25 million mark in an effort to raise investment for the world's first community-owned distillery project.

With more than 2,300 investments from people in more than 30 countries, founder John F. McKenzie of GlenWyvis Community Benefit Society says: ‘We hoped for £1.5 million, we were delighted when we hit £2 million, and we are ecstatic reaching £2.25 million so quickly. It really does underpin our ambition to make whisky history in Dingwall. The distillery will bring employment and added tourism, and put Dingwall on the world whisky map after a gap of 90 years.’

The GlenWyvis Distillery will be built on a farm above Dingwall and will be 100% community-owned distillery and 100% powered by green energy.

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