Millburn Distillery
Millburn road
Inverness Inverness-shire IV2 3QX

Owner: Diageo

Creatoin year: 1805

Originally known as "Inverness Distillery", Millburn has been acquired in 1892 by two members of the Haig family. 
The distillery has been acquired in 1921 by the gin producer Booth's, and destroyed by a fire in 1922.
Rebuild, it has been bought by the D.C.L (Distillers Company Ltd.) in 1937.
Currently one of the buildings is used to settle a restaurant. 
There is an official bottling available in the "Rare malts" collection, and Millburn is still available at independent bottlers.

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Mannochmore Distillery
Glenlossie Road
Elgin Moray IV30 8GZ

Owner: Diageo

Creation year: 1971

La distillerie Mannochmore est récente. Elle a été fondée par John Haig & Co en 1971. 
Mannochmore est une distillerie équipée d'installations très modernes.
La distillerie est voisine de Glenlossie, et a connu malgré sa récente création déjà plusieurs périodes de fermeture. Une première fermeture entre 1985 et 1989 fut suivie d’une mise en sommeil en 1995. La distillerie appartient actuellement au groupe UDV (Diageo).
C’est cette distillerie qui a mis le premier whisky noir sur le marché (Loch Dhu).

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Longmorn Distillery
Longmorn, Elgin
Morayshire IV30 3SJ
+44 1542 783 042

Owner: Pernod-Ricard

Creation year: 1894

Build on the site of an old chapel, the Longmorn distillery has been founded by John Duff and two associates, Charles Shirres and George Thomson in 1894, together with its neighbour Benriach.
John Duff founded the Glenlossie 19 years earlier.
Despite his good position within the whisky world in those days, John Duff was crippled by debts because of the great recession in the whisky industry at the end of the 19th century. He was forced to sell everything to pay his creditors.
Among the candidates for buying the distillery, John Grant (from Glen Grant) through his company Hill Thomson & Co who marketed amongst others the "Something Special" blend.
In the early 1970's, Longmorn merged with the distillery "The Glenlivet" to create "The Glenlivet Distillers Ltd".
The distillery doubled its production capacity in 1972 and again in 1974. The number of stills went from 4 to 8. Seagram purchased the distillery in 1977. Longmorn is one of the few distilleries who never stopped production. Longmorn is part of the collection "Heritage Collection".
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.
Parts of the production are used in the blends Something Special and Queen Anne.

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Linkwood Distillery
Elgin
Morayshire IV30 3RD
+44 1343 553 800

Ownr: Diageo

Creation year: 1821

According to old excise document, Peter Brown began distilling whisky at Linkwood in 1824. After his death, his son, William Brown ran the distillery for another 30 years, and gave the distillery a solid reputation.
Linkwood is tooled up since the very beginning with large capacity stills. 
Completely refurbished in 1872, it entered in the Stock Exchange quotation in 1898, when the family Brown created the Linkwood-Glenlivet company.
Innes Cameron managed the distillery from 1902 up to his death in 1932. The distillery has been taken over in 1936 by the D.C.L. (Distillers Company Ltd.), and refurbished again in 1962. Like many other distilleries, it was closed during World War II. 
When it opened again, it was ran by Roderick Mackenzie for 18 years. Mackenzie was very afraid that the quality of the whisky could be altered by any change in the distillery, so he decided nothing could be altered at Linkwood, even the spin webs must stay in place.
Enlarged in1971, Linkwood tripled its production capacity. Despite all those alterations, the Linkwood distillery has always kept its traditional character.
The distillery was closed from 1985 up to 1990.
Only 1 or 2% of the production is marketed as single malt, the remaining being used in the blends of the UDV group, White Horse, Haig, Bells and Dimple amongst others

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Knockando Distillery
Knockando
Morayshire AB38 7RP
+44 1340 810 205

Owner: Diageo

Creation year: 1898

The distillery has been founded in 1898 by John Thomson on the river Spey
Back in the early 1900's, Knockando was the first Speyside distillery to use electricity. Closed two years after its creation, it has been acquired by W&A Gilbey Ltd, the famous gin producers from London in 1904.
The distillery has been rebuild in 1969, when it doubled its production capacity. Knockando became part of IDV/Gran Metropolitan in 1975.
It's single malt is always bottled as vintages, and the distillery started marketing single malt as soon as 1978. Knockando is number eight of the single malts exporters.
However, only 8% of the production is marketed as single malt, the remaining part being used for the blends J&B and Spey Royal.

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Inchgower Distillery
Buckie
Banffshire AB56 5AB
+44 1542 831161

Owner: Diageo

Creation year: 1824

La date de création figurant sur l'étiquette de la seule version officielle de ce single malt correspond en réalité à celle de la distillerie Tonicheal. 
Cette dernière fut reconstruite ailleurs en 1871 et rebaptisée Inchgower par le neveu du fondateur de Tonicheal, Alexander Wilson. Ce déménagement a eu lieu suite à la décision des propriétaires du terrain sur lequel était située l'ancienne distillerie de doubler le prix du loyer.
La distillerie était à l'époque considéré comme un modèle du genre, avec sa propre tonnellerie, sa forge et sa menuiserie, ainsi que les maisons des ouvriers alignées devant l'entrée.
Devenue entre 1930 et 1936, la propriété de la ville de Buckie, elle fut alors rachetée par Arthur Bell & sons. 
En 1966, elle fut modernisée et agrandie, doublant ainsi sa capacité de production.
La société Bell fut reprise en 1985 par Guiness qui devint elle-même partie de U.D.V quelques années plus tard.
Seul 1% de la production est vendue comme single malt, le reste disparaissant dans les assemblages Bell's, Johnnie Walker et White Horse.

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Imperial Distillery
Carron
Morayshire AB34 7QP
+44 1340 810 276

Owner: Pernod-Ricard

Creation year: 1897

The Imperial distillery has been founded in the year of the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897 by Thomas MacKenzie, who was share holder of Talisker and Dailuaine.
At the death of its founder in 1915, a group of customers (James Buchanan, John Dewar and John Walker) took over the distillery, before creating an association ten years later, under the name of Distillers Company Ltd.
Reopened in 1919 after World War I, the distillery had to close again during long years, between 1925 and 1955, but the malting floors remained in use.
The distillery has been rebuild in 1960, and doubled its production capacity in 1965.
It became ownership of Allied Distillers in 1985. The Imperial distillery is in activity again since 1989. It's single malt is exclusively available at independent bottlers. Gordon & MacPhail offers a vintage edition.
The production is intended to the blending industry, specially for Teachers, Long John, Ballantine's and Old Smuggler.

The distillery was demolished in 203 and a new distillery is built on the site: Dalmunach.

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Glentauchers Distillery
Mulben, Keith
Banffshire AB55 2BL
+44 1542 860 272

Owner: Pernod-Ricard

Creation year: 1898

The construction of the distillery began in 1897 and one year later, the first spirit came out of the stills. A hydraulic turbine was installed instead of the traditional steam engine to run the distillery.
The distillery has been created by W.P. Lowrie, a blender of Glasgow and James Buchanan.
James Buchanan marketed his own first blends with Lowrie's stocks and financial help under the name of "Buchanan Blend". He changed the name of his blends in "House of Commons" later. His blended whisky was marketed in a black bottle with a white label, and people nicknamed this bottle "Black & White". James had the good idea to add 2 fox terries on his label (a black and a white one).
He was really successful with his blends, so he could pay his debts in no time, and he became one of the three most important characters in the whisky world, together with Dewar and Walkers.
When Lowrie retired, he sold his shares to Buchanan.
From 1910, some experiments took place in the distillery, in order to produce malt whisky in a continuous process .
The Buchanan and Dewar groups merged in 1910 and 01 years later, the group became part of DCL which would become UDV in 1987.
Important refurbishment works took place between 1923 and 1925. Electricity was installed in 1958, after the turbine was replaced by a steam engine in 1955.
The malting floors were suppressed in 1963, while the stills were altered to work on steam in place of being warmed up by coal.
Four new stills were installed in 1965 and 1966.
Glentauchers was closed during World War II from 1939 until 1946, just like most of the distilleries in Scotland, and a second time between 1985 and 1989.
The closing in 1985 was decided by UDV, while the reopening in 1989 was the consequence of the purchase of the distillery by Allied Distillers.
Glentauchers is part of the blends Black & White and Ballantine's. 
Nearly 100% of the production is used for blending purposes. 

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Glen Spey Distillery
Rothes
Morayshire AB38 7AY
+44 1340 831 215

Owner: Diageo

Creation date: 1885

The licence holder of Macallan, James Stuart altered an old mill to make it a distillery in 1884. As soon as 1885, the first distillate came out of the stills of this distillery, situated south of Rothes. This distillery was first called Millhaugh, and has been sold to W&A Gilbey Ltd in 1887. This wine merchant of London owned also Strathmill, and would acquire Knockando seven years later, in 1904.
Gilbey remained independent up to 1962, when the company became International Distillers & Vintners (IDV), after a long collaboration with United Wine Traders, which has been absorbed by Justerini and Brooks ten years earlier.
Watney Mann took the company over in 1972, and Watney Mann fall under control of Grand Metropolitan which would become Diageo after merging with Guinness. The distillers branch of Diageo is United Distillers & Vintners (UDV).
Important alteration works occurred in 1969-70. The number of stills was doubled and the malting floors transformed in warehouses.
Like most of the distilleries in Scotland, Glen Spey closed during the two world wars, due to a lack of barley.
The whole production is used in blends and the only bottlings who are marketed as single malt are coming from independent bottlers or are to be found in the UDV's collection "Fauna & Flora".
Glen Spey enters in the composition of J&B and Spey Roya

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Glenrothes Distillery
Burnside Street
Rothes Morayshire AB38 7AA
+44 1340 831 248

Owner: Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd

Creation year: 1879

The Glenrothes distillery was build from 1878 by James Stuart & Co, at that time tenants of the Macallan distillery. James Stuart had some problems with the bank and the William Grand & Co company finished the construction of Glenrothes. The William Grant & Co was formed by three associates: William Grant, John Cruikshank and Robert Dick.
The first distillation happened the same day as the catastrophic accident: the collapse of the "Tay Bridge" who killed all the passengers of the train which was crossing the Firth of Tay.
Business was not good and Glenrothes became part of Highland Distillers (already owners of Bunnahabhain). This change of ownership saved the distillery and things began to be better and better. In 1898, the production was already more than doubled.
A first fire of the warehouse nr 1 caused the loss of 200.000 gallons whisky.
Partially destroyed by a second fire in 1962, the distillery was rebuild and extended twice in 1963 and in 1980. The still house was tooled up with 10 stills. The Glenrothes single malt is marketed in an original bottle, remaining the tasting samples used by the distilleries. Previously bottled after 12 years, this single malt is currently available in vintage editions.
The remaining part of the production is used in blends, especially Cutty Sark. Glenrothes is the base of Cutty Sark.
The Highland Distillers group has been bought by the Edrington Group in november 1999 for 601 millions £.
In 2010, the distillery was purchased by Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd.

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