England, Norfolk. Distillery operational. Owner: The Whisky Company.

The arrival of the new millennium was marked by a fresh wave of openings and re-openings of distilleries across the world. England was no exception. In 2006, the Nelstrop family opened the St George distillery in Norfolk, a region known for its barley farming. It was Ian Henderson, former manager of Laphroaig and former master-distiller for Edradour, who launched the production of whisky at St George and who would become the future master distiller. The first bottlings were new-make spirits not yet 3 years old and therefore unable to use the name “whisky”. Since then, bottlings from the distillery and independent bottlings have jointly contributed to the development and international renown of St George through the release of numerous editions. The most fervent include Cadenhead, The Scotch Malt Whisky Society and Blackadder.

A new-make spirit produced at the St George’’s distillery in Norfolk, owned by The English Whisky Company. Distilled by David Fitt on 29 July 2008 from malted Optic barley peated to 50 ppm and bottled on 15 September 2008. The “Chapter” series was released in 2008 to introduce the distillery’’s work to enthusiasts. It features both peated and unpeated versions. In the first few years, distillation was overseen by Iain Henderson, an icon of the Laphroaig distillery until his retirement in 2002. Before joining Saint George’’s, he was Master Distiller at the Edradour distillery and defined the Ballechin style.