The Borders Distillery

03/10/2026

What a night! 🥃

Last week, we welcomed our nearest and dearest to the distillery for our First Release launch party.

A night of celebration, 8 years in the making.

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01/10/2026

One week in the world. Gold in the glass. 🥃

Our First Release has picked up a Gold Medal at the Spirits Business Blind Tasting: Autumn Edition.

Eight years in the making, and already making its mark.

The Borders Single Malt Scotch Wh**ky First Release is available now through select UK retailers and thebordersdistillery.com.

A land built on making. Always moving forward.

Please savour responsibly. Visit drinkaware.co.uk for the facts.

01/10/2026

IMPORTANT UPDATE 📣 Local Launch Party postponed until Spring 2027

We want to put on the very best event for our local community, and with even more exciting plans for next year, we’ve made the call to put all of our teams efforts into putting on a launch party you’ll be proud of.

Therefore, the Local Launch Party which was scheduled for October 3rd has been postponed until Spring 2027.

Watch this space!

In the meantime, we will be out and about at Wh**ky Festivals up and down the country. Will we see you there?

https://thebordersdistillery.com/events/

27/09/2026

We’re a modern distillery, with traditional ways. 🥃

We’ve brought the making of single malt Scotch wh**ky into a place with a making culture centuries deep.

Local barley. Carefully controlled fermentation. Four stills configured to create the spirit we want. Quality casks. Time.

Every stage has a job, and every decision moves the wh**ky closer to what we’re looking for.

The Borders Single Malt Scotch Wh**ky First Release is 8 years old, with our signature first-fill bourbon maturation at its heart, and a Malmsey Madeira w**e cask finish. 46% ABV. Natural colour. Non-chill-filtered.

Light. Elegant. Fruit-forward. Made properly, in the Borders.

Have you tasted our First Release?

From a land built on making. Always moving forward.

Please drink responsibly. Visit drinkaware.co.uk for the facts.

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24/09/2026

The Scottish Borders has always known how to turn what its land offers into things of elegance and worth. From textiles to engineering, making has always been part of who we are. 🥃

Today, that same spirit lives on in our wh**ky. Distilled in Hawick using locally grown barley and matured with eight years of patience, our first single malt showcases our smooth and elegant style.

Matured in first-fill Bourbon and finished in Madeira casks, each dram delivers sweetness, orchard fruit and warmth. This is wh**ky shaped by where we come from - and made for where we're going.

A land built on making. Always moving forward.

AVAILABLE NOW

The Borders Single Malt Scotch Wh**ky First Release

8 Years Old⁠
First-fill bourbon and Madeira w**e cask finish⁠
46% ABV | Natural colour⁠
RRP £46 ⁠
And only 10,000 bottles. ⁠

Available now with select UK Retailers.

22/09/2026

21/09/2026

Making great wh**ky is about knowing when to act, and when to wait. 🥃

Our spirit is carefully shaped from the start for a light, crisp and fruit-forward character.

Then comes the cask.

First-fill bourbon brings caramel, vanilla and honeyed sweetness. For this first release, Madeira takes it further, adding richness and depth.

No shortcuts. No need to rush.

Just eight years of making, waiting and making decisions that bring it all together.

The Borders Single Malt Scotch Wh**ky First Release

8 Years Old⁠
First-fill bourbon and Madeira w**e cask finish⁠
46% ABV | Natural colour⁠
RRP £46 ⁠
And only 10,000 bottles. ⁠

Arriving 24.09.2026

Get ready to taste the First Release. 3 days to go. Are you ready?

From a land built on making. Always moving forward.

Please drink responsibly. Visit drinkaware.co.uk for the facts.

20/09/2026

The Borders has always been a working land. ⁠🥃
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Fields, rivers, hills and farms. A place where what the land gives you becomes something more. ⁠
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Wool became tweed. Cashmere travelled the world. Ideas went further than the people who first had them. ⁠
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It’s a land that never once thought small.

The countdown is on...
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The Borders Single Malt Scotch Wh**ky First Release. ⁠
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8 Years Old⁠
First-fill bourbon and Madeira w**e cask finish⁠
46% ABV | Natural colour⁠
RRP £46 ⁠
And only 10,000 bottles. ⁠
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Arriving 24.09.2026 ⁠
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Get ready to taste the First Release. ⁠
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From a land built on making, always moving forward.⁠
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Please drink responsibly. Visit drinkaware.co.uk for the facts.⁠
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17/09/2026

A wh**ky can tell you where it comes from. 🥃

Ours starts close to home.

The barley is grown on 10 local farms in the Scottish Borders, the water comes from beneath the distillery, and the spirit is made in Hawick.

Then we give it time.

The result is a single malt that is light, elegant and fruit-forward, carrying something of the land it came from without being limited by it.

The Borders Single Malt Scotch Wh**ky First Release. ⁠
⁠
8 Years Old⁠
First-fill bourbon and Madeira w**e cask finish⁠
46% ABV | Natural colour⁠
RRP £46 ⁠
And only 10,000 bottles. ⁠
⁠
Arriving 24.09.2026 ⁠
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Get ready to taste the First Release. ⁠
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From a land built on making, always moving forward.