Douglas Blyde speaks to Bushmills master blender Alex Thomas about her 19-year career with the brand and the newly-opened £37 million Causeway Distillery.
There’s a neat little family home set behind iron railings on the main street in Bushmills. If you’re strolling along the pavement, you might easily pass by Sharvagh House without even really noticing it. Yet this modest building was once linked with one of Bushmills’ most prominent citizens, and today it hides from view a remarkable development that would have caused its former owner to shake his head in disbelief.
415 years to the day after the licence was granted for the world’s first distillery, Bushmills and its owner has launched its second, the Causeway Distillery.