Tomintoul distillery
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 The main building of the Tomintoul distillery | |
| Region: Speyside | |
|---|---|
| Location | Tomintoul 57°18′42″N 3°24′53″W / 57.311644°N 3.41486°W |
| Owner | Angus Dundee |
| Founded | 1964 |
| Founder | Hey & Macleod and W. and S. Strong |
| Status | Open |
| Water source | Ballantruan spring |
| No. of stills | Two wash, two spirit |
| Capacity | 3,300,000 litres of pure alcohol per year |
| Website | http://www.tomintouldistillery.co.uk |
| Tomintoul | |
| Age(s) | 10, 12, 14, 16, 21 and 33 years old |
| Cask type(s) | Oloroso and portwood finishes for the 12 year old, other ages unspecified |
| ABV | 40% |
| Tomintoul Peaty Tang | |
| Age(s) | no age indication |
| ABV | 40% |
| Tomintoul 1976 Vintage | |
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.
In 2009 Tomintoul entered the Guiness 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.[1]
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[2] At its founding the distillery had one wash still and one spirit still.[3] The distillery was bought by Schottish 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.[3][2] Schottisch and Universal was sold on to Whyte & Mackay 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.[2] 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.[2] 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[when?] 2008.[2]
Production
Tomintoul has two wash and two spirit stills, which are all steam heated, and have a total capacity of producing 3,300,000 litres of pure alcohol per year. It uses eight stainless steel washbacks, 4 larger and 4 smaller[quantify]. The water it uses for its whisky comes from the Ballantruan source.[2][4] Cooling water is drawn from two nearby ponds.[2]
The distillery offers three ranges of malts. It bottles 10, 12, 14, 16, 21 and 33 years old malts under the name Tomintoul. The 12 year old bottlings are available only in portwoord and oloroso finishes, the others have no special finishes. It also produces Tomintoul Peaty Tang, which bears no age indication, and is a vatting of peated and unpeated malts. Lastly, it bottles a 1976 vintage.[5] The 33 year old offering was chosen as best Speyside whisky of 2010 in the Whiskymag World Whiskies Awards.[6]
References
- ^ Gabriel Savage (9th September, 2009). "Tomintoul goes large". thedrinksbusiness.com.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b c d e f g Johannes van den Heuvel. "Tomintoul distillery profile". maltmadness.com.
- ^ a b Helen Arthur (2002) [1997]. The single malt companion (in Dutch). Lisbeth Machielsen. Librero. p. 226. ISBN 90-5764-236-0.
- ^ "omintoul / Tomintoul-Glenlivet". the Alternative Whisky Academy.
- ^ "our product range". Angus Dundee Distillers.
- ^ "World Whiskies Awards 2010". whiskymag.
