Tamdhu distillery
Region: Speyside | |
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Location | Knockando in Banffshire, Scotland[1] |
Owner | Ian MacLeod Distillers[2] |
Founded | 1897[1] |
Status | Operational |
No. of stills | 3 wash stills 3 spirit stills |
Capacity | 4,500,000 litres |
Mothballed | 1911–1912, 1928–1947, 2010–2013 [1] |
Tamdhu distillery is a
. Tamdhu comes from Gaelic for "little dark hill".History
The distillery was founded in 1896 by a group of assemblers, wishing to engage in the production of their own whisky. The first malt whisky was distilled and casked in 1897. It quickly passed on into the hands of Highland Distillers. The history of the distillery was fairly quiet, without changing owners, but still marked by a long dormancy between 1927 and 1947.[1]
Its production capacity was tripled between 1972 and 1975. The distillery has now 3 wash stills and 3 spirit stills. Its annual production of pure alcohol is 4 million gallons.
Unlike its neighbours, the Tamdhu distillery has no roof-shaped pagoda above its malt furnaces. This is one of the last distilleries to malt all of its barley on the spot by a mechanical saladin.
It was announced that as of April 2010, the Tamdhu Distillery, belonging to the
The Tamdhu whisky is almost completely used for the production of blended whiskies, such as
In 2017 Ian MacLeod released Tamdhu 50. It is a 50 year old bottling from a first-fill European oak sherry butt (cask 4678). It was distilled on 2 November 1963 and bottled March 2017. It had an out-turn of 100 bottles.[4]
Current Bottlings
- Tamdhu 12 Years Old 43% : Ian MacLeod[5]
- Tamdhu 15 Years Old 46% : Ian MacLeod
- Tamdhu 18 Years Old 46.8% : Ian MacLeod
- Tamdhu Batch Strength No. 001 58.8% : Ian MacLeod
- Tamdhu Batch Strength No. 002 58.5% : Ian MacLeod
• Tamdhu Batch Strength No. 007 57.5% : Ian MacLeod
- Tamdhu Limited Edition 10 Years Old 46% : Ian MacLeod
- Tamdhu Limited Edition 50 Years Old 55.6% : Ian MacLeod
- Independent Bottlings from Douglas Laing, Gordon & MacPhail, Duncan Taylor, Hunter Laing, Mackillop's Choice and others.
Previous Bottlings
- Tamdhu 10 Years Old 40% : Ian MacLeod[5]
- Tamdhu 18 Years Old 43% : Highland Distillers
- Tamdhu 10 Years Old 40% : Highland Distillers
- Tamdhu No Age Statement 40% : Highland Distillers
- Gordon & MacPhail : Tamdhu 8 years Macphail's Collection 40%
- Dewar Rattray: Tamdhu 1990 Cask Strength 62.9%
- Signatory Vintage : Tamdhu 1994 Collection Cask Strength 61%.
See also
- Ian MacLeod Distillers, current owners
- Highland Distillers, previous owners
- Edrington Group and William Grant & Sons, owners of Highland Distillers
- Scotch whisky
- List of whisky brands
Notes
- ^ a b c d The Scotsman 2009, 20 November.
- ^ a b BBC News 2011, 29 June.
- ^ "Tamdhu – Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky". Tamdhu.
- ^ "Tamdhu 50 Year Old – Tamdhu Collection Online Shop". Tamdhu.
- ^ a b Marchetti, Nino (October 29, 2018). "Scotland's Tamdhu Adds A 12 Year Scotch Whisky To Its Core Line". The Whiskey Wash. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
References
- The Scotsman (20 November 2009). "Dram shame as bosses close down distillery after 112 years". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
- BBC News (29 June 2011). "Whisky firm Ian Macleod distillers buys new plant". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2 December 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2012.