Millstone Peated

Lightly-peated & heavy-fruited flying Dutchman I am. 

Zuidam Distillery was founded in 1975 in the Netherlands by Fred van Zuidam. The beginnings were humble and it took them over 10 years before the business started taking off – that is after his wife Helene started designing the packaging for the products. These days the distillery is run by their two sons Patrick and Gilbert, however father Fred is still involved in all recipes and mother Helene continues doing the design. They use local windmills for the production of malted barley, helping preserve an important Dutch heritage of the world famous windmills. 
 
Millstone Peated is aged for 5 years in small American white oak barrels which previously held bourbon and sherry. It is double distilled in hand-made copper pot stills. The process of using windmills to grind malted barley into flour causes almost no rise in temperature, helping preserve the aroma.  The name (as you might have guessed) comes from the fact that millstones are used in windmills.