Scotland, Speyside: Single malt whisky through the producing distilleries: history, making, production and tasting notes

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Speyside:

Benriach

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The distillery

Benriach Distillery
Longmorn, Elgin
Morayshire IV30 8SJ
+44 1542 783 400

Owner: The BenRiach Distillery Company Ltd

Creation date 1898

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The Benriach distillery has been founded in 1898 by John Duff, who built the Longmorn distillery one year earlier. For financial reasons, John Duff was obliged to sell both distilleries two years later. The new owners decided to close one of both, and their choice is fallen on Benriach.
The distillery remained closed for 65 years, but the malting floors have always been active. The malt for Longmorn was produced here. The great needs of malted whisky in the area (specially for blends) decided the owners to reopen Benriach in 1965, after a complete refurbishing, as it has been completely dismantled when it was closed in 1900.
The company has been taken over in 1978 by Seagram who was also owner of Strathisla. Seagram doubled the number of stills in 1985, but the distillery has been mothballed in 1999, because of the financial crisis in Asia which had a very bad influence on the whisky market in this area.
The distilleries belonging to "The Chivas and Glenlivet Group", part of Seagram have been bought by the French group Pernod-Ricard on 19 december 2001.
The major part of the malt is used in the blends of the group: Chivas Regal, 100 pipers, Queen Anne and Something Special.
The Pernod-Ricard group has sold the distillery in may 2004 to a South African group Intra Trading, led by the former Burn Stewart director, Billy Walker for 5,4 million pounds.

The whisky

The sites below offer tasting notes for this distillery. Please click on the logo to access this notes.

		www.whisky-distilleries.info
		passionnesdumalt.free.fr
		Club o. mosellan des amateurs de whisky
		Single Malt Passion by Laphroaig43
		www.whisky-distilleries.info
		www.whisky-fun.com

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Speyside

The Speyside area is situated at the North of the Cairngorm mountain and goes to the Moray firth. It is delimited by two rivers: the Findhorn at the West side and the Deveron on the East side.
The area is named after the river Spey. Most of the distilleries take their water in one of its affluents; the Fiddich, the Livet or the Avon.
About sixty distilleries from Speyside are described on this site.

Click on the map for a list of the distilleries of the area, on the title for further information
about the Speyside area, and if you want to make an "alphabetical journey" through the area, please
click on one of the pagode roofs, according to the direction you want to follow

Photos of the distillery

Last update: Saturday, 19-Dec-2009 16:20:29 CET
Tue 16 03 2010, 14:38 - 90 visiteurs au cours de la dernière heure et 8 visiteurs sur le site en ce moment.
Copyright:Jean-Marie Putz (2003-2007)

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