Millburn Whisky

Millburn was a Highland single malt distillery in Inverness, and the oldest of the city's three lost distilleries, alongside Glen Mhor and Glen Albyn. Its roots are usually traced to 1807, when it was known as Inverness Distillery, before later reopening and taking the Millburn name in the nineteenth century.

The distillery eventually became part of the Distillers Company Limited and later the portfolio now associated with Diageo. Millburn closed in 1985 during the broader Scotch whisky downturn, and many of its buildings were demolished in 1988 as the site was redeveloped. Parts of the former distillery have survived in altered form, but whisky production has never returned.

Millburn was not widely promoted as a single malt while active, so surviving bottlings are rare. The best-known official releases came through the Rare Malts series, while independent bottlings from names such as Gordon & MacPhail, Cadenhead's and Signatory have helped preserve its reputation among enthusiasts. The whisky is generally associated with an old-style Highland profile, showing malt, citrus, honey, orchard fruit, herbs, wax and gentle spice, with older examples developing polished oak, dried fruit and a more complex, slightly austere maturity.

Millburn now stands as one of the vanished Inverness malts: historically important, increasingly scarce and often overlooked in favor of better-known closed distilleries. Its remaining bottles offer a glimpse of Highland whisky from a city where distilling once had a far stronger presence than it does today.