Southport Whisky Festival Summer 2022 Special Release

Henstone Distillery

£70

We produced a special edition whisky for the Southport Whisky Festival Summer 2022 and here it is!! Limited to 72 bottles this batch was mashed, fermented and distilled back in 2019. This expression is at cask strength of 61.5% and we have only a few of these left for sale as the others are being sold via the Southport Whisky Club It was part of a 200 litre American Standard ex Bourbon (Heaven Hill) cask. The remains of which formed Henstone Distillery ex-bourbon release 5. It matured in cask HDC0019 and full details can be found here – CLICK FOR BATCH DETAIL S

Henstone Distillery's own words, read from their page.

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Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as HENSTONE DISTILLERY LIMITED, number 09676373. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "Following a restructure in 2023, Mike Harris acquired 50% and the company relocated to a farm on Long Mountain owned by him." Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
Not established. Many companies file a statement rather than naming a controlling shareholder.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.