Caperdonich Distillery has a sad story, the tale of a distillery that never seemed to find the love it was due until it was too late. Initially constructed during the whisky boom era of the late 1800s by J & J Grant and originally named Glen Grant 2, Caperdonich was closed in 1902 after only a few years of initial operation and did not reopen again until 1965.

There followed thirty-seven years of consistent production at Caperdonich, during which time the distillate was used almost exclusively for blends. It was not until this century, though, that Caperdonich began to appear regularly as a single malt in independent bottlings. The distillery's whisky was once reputed to have a dull character, fit only for diluting or softening the grain components in blends. Many expressions in recent years, however, have proven this to be drastically inaccurate.