What Is a Dunnage Warehouse, and How Is It Different from a Racked Warehouse?

Published 01/02/2024

A dunnage warehouse is the old-school, traditional type of whisky warehouse. The kind that appears on every distillery tour as if it were a living museum exhibit entitled “How Whisky Used to Be Stored Back Before Anyone Invented Practicality.” You may even have sipped a glass in one, feeling very authentic and slightly chilly. They are charming, atmospheric, and largely abandoned in favour of something less poetic and more sensible, because they are about as efficient as a Glasgow pub lock-in on a Monday morning.