Woven unveils blending experience in Leith
The first phase of Woven Whisky’s major facility project in Leith, a hands-on blending experience, will open on 1 June.
The brand will open a major whisky blending destination in Leith, Edinburgh, next year, alongside a new dedicated visitor experience.
Housed at Brown’s of Leith, the two-floor site will be home to the brand’s full blending operations, public blending rooms, a tasting space, and a lounge bar.
Woven’s co-founder and whisky maker, Peter Allison, said: “For us, this step forward is much bigger than launching a new whisky experience. We want to help build a new future for Scotch whisky in Leith, the place where it first went out to the world.
“Leith was once the beating heart of the whisky industry, but over time, blending became something hidden behind closed doors.”
While the full facility is planned to be completed in 2027, Woven’s Blending Rooms experience will launch on 1 June.
The experience sees guests blend and bottle their own whisky in two-hour hands-on sessions designed for groups of six to eight.
“This experience is for the makers. Whether it’s amateur experiments in coffee, making pizza at home or a long-term relationship with sourdough, the best thing about any craft is rolling up your sleeves and getting stuck in – and that’s what we want to offer in whisky,” Allison explained.
Allison will guide the sessions, which begin with a Highball at speciality coffee and spirits bar, Haze. Guests then move on to the Blending Rooms to nose and taste individual whisky components from Woven’s flavour library and experiment with combinations, before building their own blend.
Guests bottle, label and take home their blends in 100ml bottles. There is an option to order larger batches after the experience, which ends with a farewell cocktail.
“By putting the blending process in the hands of novices and proving they can build incredible whisky, we are hoping to break down the barriers the industry has built around its craft,” Allison said.
“By the time the full facility opens in 2027, we hope it becomes a place where anyone can come and experience the future of whisky being built in Leith in real time.”
Once open, Woven’s Blending Rooms will be the ‘largest’ purpose-built investment in whisky blending infrastructure in Leith ‘since the neighbourhood’s golden age as Scotland’s whisky capital in the 19th and early 20th centuries’.
The blending sessions cost £55 (US$73). Interested parties can register on Woven’s website.
Brown’s of Leith opened in late 2025 within the former George Brown & Sons warehouse.
Gunnar Groves-Raines, the founder of Brown’s of Leith, added: “We are honoured to have Woven Whisky as part of the Brown’s of Leith family, while they plan their new bonded warehouse within the building.
“With over a century of industry and production on the Shore, Brown’s is a perfect home for Woven’s bright, contemporary approach to the traditional craft of whisky making and blending.
“Their presence further strengthens the growing creative ecosystem around Brown’s and Custom Lane – bringing together makers, producers and independent businesses connected by craft, collaboration and modern Scottish creativity.”
Three friends – Allison, Duncan McRae and Nick Ravenhall – founded Woven in 2021.
The Leith-based brand established a whisky-blending studio in Hoxton, London, in 2024.
Woven’s past releases have included an all-English blended whisky and a limited-edition expression celebrating Nordic distilleries.
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