Founded in 1872 by the farmer William Mitchell, who had previously owned Springbank distillery. The distillery lies on Glebe Street in close proximity to the centre of Campbeltown. In 2004 that Hedley Wright, a previous owner of Springbank, acquired the buildings and founded Mitchell’s Glen Gyle. The first release was a new make spirit, launched in May 2007 and the first official single malt whisky released in 2012. In 2016 a permanent 12-year-old expression was released, the first core expression to be launched.
Bottlings from Mitchell’s Glen Gyle are under the name Kilkerran, which derives from the Scottish Gaelic ‘Ceann Loch Cille Chiarain’, a name for Saint Kerran’s religious settlement, now Campbeltown.
