The Aberargie distillery was constructed in 2017 by Morrison Scotch Whisky Distillers’ Brian Morrison and his son Jamie Morrison on a family-owned farm in Perthshire in the Scottish Lowlands.
Aberargie farm was already growing high quality barley for maltsters before the Morrisons, who had been building their Càrn Mòr line of independent bottlings, applied for permission to build a distillery in 2014. The distillery is equipped with a semi-lauter mash tun, nine stainless steel washbacks and one pair of panel-heated copper potstills from Forsyth's in Rothes, giving Aberargie a capacity of around 750000 litres per annum.
The Morrisons run a grain to glass operation at Aberargie, distilling the heritage variety Golden Promise, which is grown on Aberargie farm, as well as Laureate barley grown on the family’s other farms in Scotland. Golden Promise was the barley used by Macallan back in the distillery's legendary era, and was adopted by Karuizawa in Japan soon afterwards in their quest to make the best possible Japanese malt whisky. The results speak for themselves.
All of Aberargie’s spirit is filled to fresh first fill bourbon and sherry casks and the distillery even has its own blending and bottling hall adjacent to the stillhouse. Aside from the malting of the barley, which is done by a third party, every other part of the whiskymaking process at Aberargie is entirely under the direct control of the Morrisons.
Early in 2026, almost a decade after distillation commenced, the Morrisons launched their first ever official bottling of Aberargie Lowland single malt whisky. Aberargie Inaugural uses both Golden Promise and Laureate barleys in a 52-48 ratio and was matured 50-50 in first fill bourbon and sherry casks.