Scotland is proud of its whiskey, its tradition, its sacred craft. But the Nc’nean distillery no longer wants to play along and relies on climate-neutral organic Scotch. A sacrilege? Let’s see.
Only one road leads to loneliness. It squeezes into the land between the forests and the coast, narrow, fragile. Sheep rest there during the day and deer at night. Morvern, a peninsula in the west of Scotland, is washed by the sea and deserted by people. At the end of asphalt and civilization lies Drimnin Estate, home of the Nc’nean distillery. And the birthplace of a small whiskey revolution.
It is a story that began with an exit and evolves into an ascent. At the beginning of the new millennium, two Londoners sought freedom and found it here, on the west coast of Scotland. No traffic, no neighbors, just seclusion, wild nature, stone houses, centuries old. But the peace didn’t last long. The daughter had other plans.