LOCATION & HISTORY
PERFECTLY PLACED IN SCOTLAND
OUR LOCATION
Our estate must be the perfect place to build a distillery. To the east, the powerful influence of sea and salt. To the west, our farm with its fields of nurtured crops. All with a backdrop of the Angus hills that slowly filter pure water into our underground lagoon. And of course, from the skies, our dramatic and capricious coastal climate adds its own magic (although the odd downpour is not uncommon here, our eastern location is actually the sunniest part of Scotland with about 1500 hours of sunshine every year).
THE ARBIKIE HIGHLAND ESTATE
OVERLOOKING THE EXPANSE OF LUNAN BAY
Arbikie Estate is a family-owned working farm perched on the east coast of Angus. Here, the crop is king. We painstakingly plant, sow, tend and harvest the fields that make up Arbikie. We are craftsmen of the soil.
This is an estate profoundly shaped by its environment: the red sandstone-tinted soil, the powerful sea and the turbulent weather give Arbike a character found nowhere else. And here, situated where land meets sea, sits our distillery – created from an ancient barn, it is a place with all the ingredients required to produce authentic spirits of the highest quality.
HISTORIC ROOTS
A TRADITIONAL ETHOS
The Arbikie Highland Estate distillery is a genuinely single-site, field to bottle operation – the ingredients for all our spirits are planted, sown, grown and harvested within an arms-length of our distillery. The mountain-filtered water is taken directly from our underground lagoon.
Records show a distillery situated on our land dating back as far as 1794. During these ancient times, distilling was field to bottle, and it is this approach that inspired our own ethos (making spirits this way is rare as big companies produce spirits as a global commodity). For us, authenticity
and provenance are at the heart of everything we do. And let’s not forget creativity – as a family business we have the flexibility to be innovative and original.
FARMING SINCE 1660
AN ENDURING HISTORY
Our family has been farming at Arbikie for four generations. From father to son, we have gained an intuitive understanding of the land, sowing and harvesting the crops that now create Arbikie’s range of field to bottle spirits. Farming in the Stirling family goes back even further - since 1660, initially on the west coast. Our lands passed through seven generations until great uncle Bill moved to farm at Arbikie on the east coast of Angus in the 1920’s. He then passed it to our grandfather, John Stirling who expanded the acreage before passing the lands over to Alec Stirling.
PERFECTLY PLACED IN SCOTLAND
OUR LOCATION
Our estate must be the perfect place to build a distillery. To the east, the powerful influence of sea and salt. To the west, our farm with its fields of nurtured crops. All with a backdrop of the Angus hills that slowly filter pure water into our underground lagoon. And of course, from the skies, our dramatic and capricious coastal climate adds its own magic (although the odd downpour is not uncommon here, our eastern location is actually the sunniest part of Scotland with about 1500 hours of sunshine every year).
THE ARBIKIE HIGHLAND ESTATE
OVERLOOKING THE EXPANSE OF LUNAN BAY
Arbikie Estate is a family-owned working farm perched on the east coast of Angus. Here, the crop is king. We painstakingly plant, sow, tend and harvest the fields that make up Arbikie. We are craftsmen of the soil.
This is an estate profoundly shaped by its environment: the red sandstone-tinted soil, the powerful sea and the turbulent weather give Arbike a character found nowhere else. And here, situated where land meets sea, sits our distillery – created from an ancient barn, it is a place with all the ingredients required to produce authentic spirits of the highest quality.
HISTORIC ROOTS
A TRADITIONAL ETHOS
The Arbikie Highland Estate distillery is a genuinely single-site, field to bottle operation – the ingredients for all our spirits are planted, sown, grown and harvested within an arms-length of our distillery. The mountain-filtered water is taken directly from our underground lagoon.
Records show a distillery situated on our land dating back as far as 1794. During these ancient times, distilling was field to bottle, and it is this approach that inspired our own ethos (making spirits this way is rare as big companies produce spirits as a global commodity). For us, authenticity
and provenance are at the heart of everything we do. And let’s not forget creativity – as a family business we have the flexibility to be innovative and original.
FARMING SINCE 1660
AN ENDURING HISTORY
Our family has been farming at Arbikie for four generations. From father to son, we have gained an intuitive understanding of the land, sowing and harvesting the crops that now create Arbikie’s range of field to bottle spirits. Farming in the Stirling family goes back even further - since 1660, initially on the west coast. Our lands passed through seven generations until great uncle Bill moved to farm at Arbikie on the east coast of Angus in the 1920’s. He then passed it to our grandfather, John Stirling who expanded the acreage before passing the lands over to Alec Stirling.