Tomatin distillery

Tomatin Distillery is a whiskey in the village of Tomatin in the county of Inverness -shire on the eastern edge of the Monadhliath Mountains in the Scottish Highlands.

History

The story distillery dates back to the 15th century when cattle dealer and drover her whiskey from a distillery in the Old Laird 's House, based at the site of today's distillery. 1897, the distillery was " legalized " by the official establishment. In 1906 she went bankrupt, but was re- opened in 1909. Until 1956, it was one with two stills of the smaller distilleries. At that time, two stills were added. 1958 two more were built. 1961 were again added four stills and 1964, accompanied by another. This Tomatin was at least in the short term, the only Scottish whiskey distillery with an odd number of stills. In 1974 three more Bennblasen built and own maltings closed down since the malt is sourced from the Glen Ord Maltings. At the time, Tomatin was the largest Scottish distillery with an annual output of 12 million liters of alcohol. Tomatin 1985 was again bankrupt and was taken over in 1986 by the Japanese investors Takara Shuzo Co. and Okara & Co., internals further nine stills. Takara Shuzo Co. and Okara & Co. thus became the first Japanese owners of a Scottish whiskey distillery. Since 1998, she operates under Tomatin Distillery Co Ltd. In terms of emissions, it is now one of the " top ten distilleries " Scotland.

Production

The distillery operates 12 of the 23 stills and has an annual capacity of about 5 million liters of pure alcohol at a yield of around 2 million liters. It produces little single-malt whiskeys. The majority of the whiskey is used for blended whiskeys as " Antiquary " and "The Talisman".

Product spectrum

  • Tomatin Legacy
  • Tomatin 12 yo
  • Tomatin 18 yo
  • Tomatin 25 yo
  • Tomatin 30 yo
  • Tomatin 40 yo
  • Tomatin 1970 Cask Bottling
  • Antiquary 12 yo
  • Antiquary 21 yo
  • Antiquary 1977
  • The Talisman

Visits

Tomatin has a visitor center and can be visited.

Trivia

  • 315 meters above sea level, it is one of the highest distilleries in Scotland ( Braeval 355 m, Dalwhinnie 326 m).
  • The first Scottish distillery in Japanese-owned.
  • Company housing for 25 employees families.
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