The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74367   Message #1298630
Posted By: Sandy Mc Lean
16-Oct-04 - 04:34 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Leave Us Our Glens (G Donald, B Hardie)
Subject: RE: A Song about the 'Glens' (whiskey)
In Cape Breton there is a single malt whisky distilled at Glenora Distillery in Glenville (two miles from Glenora). Nowhere on the lable is this called scotch but the distilling industry in Scotland thinks that they should have exclusive use of the word "glen" so the fight is on. The distillery is owned by a MacLean and Cape Breton is more Gaelic than most areas of Scotland. Glen is a Gaelic word but the Spannish / Scotch industry is cheeky enough to think that they own it.
                Slainte,
                  Sandy