Overview
The Tomintoul-Glenlivet Distillery is a distillery in Ballindalloch, in the Speyside region of Scotland, producing malt whisky for blends and bottled as single malts. The distillery was founded in 1964. It doubled in capacity when two extra stills were installed in 1974, and started bottling single malt whisky in that year. It produces a range of single malts of different ages, a peated malt, and a vintage malt. The distillery is owned and operated by Angus Dundee Distillers, PLC, of London, England, which also owns and operates the Glencadam distillery.
In 2009 Tomintoul entered the Guinness Book of World Records by producing the largest bottle of whisky in the world, containing 105.3 litres of 14-year-old Tomintoul malt whisky.
Details
Location: Tomintoul Distillery, Ballindalloch, Banffshire AB37 9AQ, Scotland
Visit Type: By appointment only
Co-ordinates: 57.312496, -3.412143
Telephone: +44 (0)1807 590 274
Email: gbowie@angusdundee.co.uk
Web: https://www.tomintoulwhisky.com/
Twitter: Tomintoul (@TomintoulWhisky)
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History
It was founded in 1964 by the Glasgow whisky traders Hey & Macleod and W. and S. Strong, which set up a working company, Tomintoul Distillery Ltd. Production, to manage the distillery. At its founding the distillery had one wash still and one spirit still. The distillery was bought by Scottish and Universal Investment Trust in 1973 which doubled the production capacity by placing an extra pair of steam heated stills in the next year. That year, the distilleries 10 year anniversary, they also released the first bottling of their malt. Scottish and Universal was sold on to Whyte & Mackay (which was owned by Brent Walker) in 1989.
Whyte & Mackay itself was bought by American Brands in 1990, and in the same year, Tomintoul started selling a 12-year-old bottling of its malt in a distinctively styled bottle. The distillery itself was sold off to Angus Dundee in 2000, and under their management, the official bottling became the 10-year-old malt, sold in more conventional bottles. The official bottling portfolio expanded in the next years, with a 16-year-old malt in 2003 and a 27-year-old malt in 2004. A year later in 2005 a 1991 peaty vintage was released under the name 'Old Ballantruan', bottled at 50% ABV, followed by 12 year old finished on Oloroso butts, a vatting of unpeated and peated Tomintoul malts under the name 'Peaty Tang', and a 1976 vintage, all released around 2008
Nearby Locations
Location | Distance | Direction |
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The Glenlivet Distillery | 3.46 miles | NE |
Ballindaloch Distillery | 6.74 miles | NNE |
Cragganmore Distillery | 6.92 miles | N |
Glenfarclas Distillery | 8.63 miles | NNE |
Cardhu Distillery | 11.12 miles | NNE |
The GlenAllachie Distillery | 12.06 miles | NNE |
Aberlour Distillery | 12.66 miles | NNE |
Glenfiddich Distillery | 14.43 miles | NE |
The Balvenie Distillery | 14.51 miles | NE |
The Macallan Distillery | 14.55 miles | NNE |
Speyside Cooperage | 14.55 miles | NNE |
Glen Grant Distillery | 16.79 miles | NNE |
Dallas Dhu Historic Distillery | 20.42 miles | NNW |
Royal Lochnagar Distillery | 20.53 miles | SSE |
BenRiach Distillery | 21.02 miles | NNE |
Findhorn Viaduct | 21.35 miles | W |
BenRomach Distillery | 22.23 miles | NNW |
Tomatin Distillery | 22.40 miles | W |
Glen Moray Distillery | 23.01 miles | N |
Strathisla Distillery | 23.51 miles | NE |