Glenallachie distillery
 The grounds of the GlenAllachie distillery | |
| Region: Speyside | |
|---|---|
| Location | Aberlour 57°27′19″N 3°13′43″W / 57.45518°N 3.22871°W |
| Owner | The GlenAllachie Distillers Co Limited |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Founder | Mackinlay McPherson |
| Architect | W. Delme Evans |
| Status | Open |
| Water source | Sources on Ben Rinnes |
| No. of stills | Two wash, two spirit |
| Capacity | 3,200,000 litres of pure alcohol per year |
| Website | www.theglenallachie.com |
Glenallachie is a malt whisky distillery on Speyside at Aberlour founded in 1967. It has mainly produced whisky for blends. Under Chivas ownership it released 2 official bottlings at cask strength, one of 16 and one of 18 years old. A new core range of 10, 12, 18 and 25 year old whisky was released in 2018 under the new ownership, as well as additional single cask releases.[1]
History
The GlenAllachie distillery was built in 1967 by Mackinlay McPherson.[2] It was bought and mothballed by Invergordon Distillers in 1985.[3] They sold it to Campbell Distillers in 1989, who restarted the distillery.[2][4] In 2017, the distillery was sold to Billy Walker, Graham Stevenson and Trisha Savage, who came together as The GlenAllachie Distillers Company Limited, along with two blended Scotch whisky brands - White Heather and MacNair's.[5]
Building
The building of the GlenAllachie distillery was designed by S. Lothian Barclay from Lothian, Barclay Jarvis & Boys and William Delme-Evans[3] It is located at the foot of Ben Rinnes,[2] close to the Lour burn.[6] The grounds has ponds that are fed by the Lour, that provide water for cooling.[6]
Production
The distillery draws its water from spring fed and snow water fed streams on Ben Rinnes. It uses lightly peated malts.[6] The distillery uses a semi-lauter mash tun, and six stainless steel washbacks. It uses two lantern shaped wash stills, and two onion shaped spirit stills for distillation.[4] The distilled spirit is matured in used oak bourbon barrels.[3] Though the malt is mainly used in blends, it produces a 16-year-old cask-strength bottling since 2005,[4] and an 18-year-old bottling since 2008.[citation needed] It is mainly used in the Chivas Brothers Cask Strength Clan Campbell blend,[3] and also in the Legendary and White Heather blended whiskies. The whisky is bottled and sold as a twelve-year-old single malt by Delhaize, and Signatory bottles vintage editions of the whisky.[6]
References
- ^ Melita Kiely (29 November 2018). "GlenAllachie appoints Winebow Group as US distributor". The Spirits Business. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- ^ a b c Helen Arthur (2002) [1997]. The single malt companion (in Dutch). Lisbeth Machielsen (trans.). Libero. p. 118. ISBN 90-5764-236-0.
- ^ a b c d "Glenallachie Single Malt Scotch Whisky". whisky.com.
- ^ a b c "Glenallachie distillery profile". Malt Madness.
- ^ http://www.theglenallachie.com/
- ^ a b c d "Glenallachie". Whisky Classified.
