Glen Moray Distillery
Elgin
Morayshire IV30 1YE
+44 1343 542 577

Owner: La Martiniquaise

Creation year: 1897

In 1815 a new brewery was build near Elgin by Henry Arnott & Co. There were in those days already about 80 of them in the area.
The brewery has been transformed in a distillery in 1897, and most of the brewery buildings remained unchanged.
The distillery closed in 1910. 
After a very short reopening in 1912, Glen Moray must wait until 1923 for its revival, when it was acquired by the owners of Glenmorangie.
Since then the only period where the distillery has been mothballed was during World War II, just like most of the other distilleries in Scotland.
Important alteration works happened in 1958 and the distillery acquired a "Saladin Box" which was in use up to 1977.
The exterior aspect of the distillery is characterized by two enormous grain silos. Distilleries use to burry their silos.
A part of the production is used in Highland Queen blend.
Glenmorangie Plc sold the Glen Moray distillery to the French company La Martiniquaise in September 2008 

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Glen Mhor Distillery
Telford Street
Inverness

Owner: Diageo

Creation year: 1892

The Glen Mhor distillery was situated North-West from Inverness. Just as Glen Albyn its water was coming from the famous Loch Ness. In 1954, Glen Mhor was the first distillery to use a mechanical process for the malting of barley.
Glen Mhor became property of the D.C.L (Distillers Company Ltd.) in 1972, ant this company decided to close the distillery in 1983.
The distillery has been demolished in 1986 and a shopping centre has been built on the site. Glen Mhor can still be found in independent bottlers collections.

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Glenlossie Distillery
Elgin
Morayshire IV30 8FF
+44 1343 547 891

Owner: Diageo

Creation year: 1876

The Glenlossie distillery has been founded in 1876 by John Duff, in those days director of Glendronach and owner of an hotel in Lhanbryde. The distillery has been build with the help of two of his friends, Alexander Grigor Allen and H.M.S. MacKay.
John Duff remained owner of the distillery up to 1896, when Alexander Grigor Allen died. John Duff just founded Longmorn and was actively thinking about the creation of Benriach.
When John Duff left the distillery, H.M.S MacKay renamed it in "Glenlossie-Glenlivet", and built railway section to the station of Longmorn.
In 1919, the distillery has been bought by the D.C.L. (Distillers Company Ltd.).
It has been destroyed in a fire in 1929 and rebuild.
Like many other distilleries, the Glenlossie distillery has been closed during the two world wars, because of a lack of barley. 
Glenlossie has been enlarged in 1962, and the number of stills went from 4 to 6.
Between 1968 and 1971, the Glenlossie build a distillery waste reprocessing plant to produce cattle food.
A new distillery has been build besides Glenlossie in 1971: Mannochmore.
Its single malt is rarely bottled (only 0,5% of the production is marketed as single malt), and is to find at independent bottlers or in the UDV official collection "Fauna & Flora".

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Glenlivet Distillery
Ballindaloch
Banffshire AB37 9DB
+44 1542 783 220

Owner: Pernod-Ricard

Creation year: 1824

The family of George Smith was producing whisky in the valley of the Livet for ages. Their name was "Gow" till they preferred changing in it "Smith" after a lost battle against England. When the Excise Act  which made it possible to produce legal whisky was promulgated in1823, George Smith was the first one who applied for such a licence. He got his licence in 1824 and began distilling legally in his farm. The Duke of Gordon, landlord and father of the Excise Act was very pleased to see the results of this first legal distillery. But the moonshine distillers were not so happy. Some of them even threaten him with death, and the Duke of Gordon lent him 2 shotguns, which still can be seen in the visitor centre of the distillery.
His son, James Gordon Smith founded a distillery named Delnabo near Tomintoul in 1849. He was not really successful, and George took over his son's distillery, and renamed it Cairngorn.
In 1858, George and James joined together to build a bigger distillery near Minmore, where the present distillery is settled. Both of the distilleries owned by the family were closed and demolished. The new distillery was nearby the railway, which facilitates lots of things for a distillery. The commercial success was also due to the exclusive distributor, Andrew Usher & Co who is by the way the inventor of the blended whisky with the unchanging consistency which made the success of blends.
In the 1880's, The Glenlivet was so famous that some other unscrupulous distillers began to use its name on their own bottlings.John Gordon Smith went to court and won partially his case. He was the only one who was authorized to use the name of Glenlivet without any other added word. His distillery became then "The Glenlivet", but others had the right to add the name Glenlivet to their own name. The trademark was registered in 1870.
The current owner of the distillery would like to go further, and oblige his competitors to abandon the name of Glenlivet in the name of their distillery. To make an example, he renamed one of the distilleries belonging to his group from Braes of Glenlivet in Braeval.
Glenlivet merged with Glen Grant in 1853. In 1958 a fire destroyed the original buildings.
In the early 70's, Glenlivet and Glen Grant acquired the Longmorn distillery to become "The Glenlivet Distillers" taken over in 1977 by the Seagram group.
The distilleries belonging to the "Chivas and Glenlivet Group", property of Seagram, were bought by the Pernod-Ricard group on 19 december 2001.
The only period where The Glenlivet had to close was the second world war, because of a lack of barley.
Besides the marketing as single malt, the whisky is used form premium blends like Chivas Regal and Royal Salute

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Glen Keith Distillery
Station Road, Keith
Banffshire AB55 3BU
+44 1542 783 044

Owner: Pernod-Ricard

Creatin year: 1958

Glen Keith was the first distillery to be created in the 20th Century.
Seagram transformed this old mill into a distillery in 1958, in order to produce a triple distilled single malt. The Chivas brothers opened the distillery.
The triple distillation method has been used up to 1970, when the number of stills increased to five. A sixth still has been added in 1970.
Glen Keith was the first distillery to use gas to heat the stills, and was also the first one to computerize its production process. Since 1994, Glen Keith is part of the official collection "Malt selection" 
All the distilleries of the "The Chivas and Glenlivet Group", belonging to Seagram have been taken over by Pernod Ricard on 19 december 2001.
The distillery has been mothballed in 1999 and reopened on June 14, 2013

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Glen Grant Distillery
Rothes,
Morayshire AB38 7BS
+44 1542 783 300

Owner: Campari

Creation year: 1840

The Glen Grant distillery is named after its two founders, James and John Grant.
The youngest, James was judge and banker. Both decided to build a distillery in Rothes in 1840.
After their death, the son of James, the Major James Grant took over the business, and built another distillery on the other side of the road and named it Glen Grant 2. In the meanwhile, it has been renamed in Caperdonich. The two distilleries were linked up by a pipeline transporting the whisky from Glen Grant 2 to Glen Grant.
A local legend says that the inhabitants of Rothes have invented a stratagem to reroute a part of the whisky for themselves, taking it directly from the pipe-line.
When the major died, is grand son, Major Douglas Mackessack took over the distillery and made it one of the best and most famous distilleries of Scotland.
Glen Grant was obliged to close its doors during the two world wars, because of a lack of barley, just like most distilleries in those days.
In 1953 Glen Grant joined together with George & J.G. Smith, owners of The Glenlivet. In 1972 the group merged with the Longmorn distillery. This was the birth of The Glenlivet Distillers Ltd. The latter has been bought in 1978 by Seagram.
The distilleries belonging to the "Chivas and Glenlivet Group", property of Seagram, were bought by the Pernod-Ricard group on 19 december 2001.
The Glen Grant single malt is very popular in Italy, and is also available at some independent distillers. Gordon & MacPhail sell some vintages. The distillery is very nice to visit, because of its wonderful gardens, in colonial style.
The Glen Grant distillery has been sold in 2006 to the Italian group Campari as a result of the acuisition of Allied Domecq by Pernod Ricard. The French group did not want (or was not authorized) to keep all the distilleries in their portfolio, and took distance from Glen Grant, Laphroaig and Bushmills amongst others. 

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Glenglassaugh Distillery
Portsoy
Banffshire AD45 2SQ
+44 1261 842 367

Owner: BenRiach Distillery Company

Creation year: 1875

The distillery has been founded in 1875.
It has been closed a few times during its life, first from 1907 to 1931 and from 1936 to 1959.
Important alteration words took place before its reopening between 1959 and 1960. The production capacity has been doubled by enhancing of the still's size during the same time.
The distillery is mothballed since 1986, and it does not look like it could ever be reopened. Its malt was used in lots of blends, amongst others Famous Grouse, Cutty Sark and Laing's. 
It is a coastal malt, produced in the area of Portsoy, between the mouth of the rivers Spey and Deveron. 

Glenglassaugh distillery has been sold to the Scaent group in february 2008 and reopend in November of the same year. In 2013, the distillery was sold to BenRiach Distillery Company, the latter being bought by Brown-Forman in 2016. 

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Glenfarclas Distillery
Ballindalloch,
Banffshire AB37 9BD
+44 1807 500 257

Owner: J&G Grant

Creation year: 1836

En 1844 Robert Hay fonda la distillerie Glenfarclas avec du matériel récupéré de la distillerie Dandalieth. A sa mort en 1865 elle fut reprise par John Grant et la distillerie n'est pas sortie de la famille depuis. 
Les 5 premières années, John loua la distillerie à John Smith qui allait construire Cragganmore quelques années plus tard.
John Grant géra la distillerie avec son fils George qui allait mourir un an après son père. Sa femme Barbara hérita de la licence de la distillerie, et ses deux fils John et George Grant reprirent l'affaire.
Glenfarclas est l'une des rares distilleries indépendantes et familiales d'Ecosse. 
En 1896 Grant vendit 50% des parts à Pattison, Elder & Co pour financer les transformations. Malgré un partage honnête des bénéfices, Pattison fit faillite en 1899, et la distillerie redevint propriété exclusive de la famille Grant.
Le directeur actuel, John, représente la 5ème génération de Grants à la tête de Glenfarclas.
La distillerie fut reconstruite en 1897. Elle doubla sa capacité de production en 1960. 
En 1976, deux alambics supplémentaires furent installés. 
Elle fut également l'une des premières distilleries à proposer une version cask strength de son single malt, le Glenfarclas 105.
Environ la moitié de la production sert aux assemblages.

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Glen Elgin distillery
Longmorn by Elgin IV30 3SL
Morayshire
+44 1343 960212

Owner: Diageo

Creation year: 1898

La distillerie Glen Elgin fut construite à la fin du whisky-boom, en 1898. Deux mois à peine après son inauguration, le marché s’effondrait.
Malgré la crise, les propriétaires William Simpson (ancien directeur de Glenfarclas) et James Carle décidèrent de ne pas mettre fin à leurs activités, mais de continuer la distillation à petite échelle.
Leur décision fit long feu, et ils furent contraints d’arrêter la production et de mettre leur distillerie en vente dès novembre 1900, après 6 mois après la première distillation.
La dsitillerie passa par diverses mains avant de tomber en 1936 dans le giron de UDV par le biais de la Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd.
Comme la plupart des distilleries, Glen Elgin ferma ses portes durant la seconde guerre mondiale, et comble de malchance, la ligne de chemin de fer qui passait à proximité fut désaffectée au cours des années 50.
Malgré tous ces déboires, la distillerie fut transformée en 1964 et le nombre d’alambics fut triplé, mais fut à nouveau obligée à fermer ses portes entre 1992 et 1995.
La plus grande partie de la production est utilisée dans les assemblages White Horse.

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Glendullan Distillery
Dufftown, Keith
Banffshire AB55 4DJ
+44 1340 820 250

Owner: Diageo

Creation year: 1897

The distillery has been created in 1897 by the blender William Williams. This is the seventh distillery around Dufftown. A local saying is: “Rome was built on seven hills and Dufftown stands on seven stills.” Glendullan was however not the last one as two more distilleries have been build round the town. Currently, there are 6 of them in activity.
It has been said that the distillery has been build because an attempt to buy Glenfiddich and The Balvenie was not successful. The new distillery has been build near these two distilleries, in order to guarantee a whisky with the same quality.
William Williams joined the Greenlees Brothers in 1919. Greenlees belonged to Alexander & MacDonald in those days. The company, which has been renamed in MacDonald Greenlees was also owner of the Auchinblae an Stronachie distilleries. Those distilleries closed respectively in 1926 and 1928.
Also Glendullan had to close like many other distilleries during World War II, due to a lack of Barley. Glendullan remained closed from 1940 up to 1947. The distillery has been refurbished in the early 1960's. A new distillery has been build near the old one in 1970-1971. 
As both distilleries were producing exactly the same malt because they were using the same water and the same processing and were settled in the same area, the old distillery stopped production for good in 1985.

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