Tamdhu Distillery
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Although a few official single malt bottlings appeared, including a light-bodied 10-year-old, Tamdhu could hardly be regarded as a frontline player. It has a fragrant fruitiness with notes of honey and apple but sufficient weight to cope with ageing in ex-Sherry casks.
Although Tamdhu is a big supplier of whisky blend:
- The Famous Grouse
- Cutty Sark
- Dunhill
Its outspoken and unique character makes it ideal for blended whisky.
2010 Tamdhu released their first 100% sherries 10 year old single malt whisky.
This small distillery still produce approximately 4 million liter yearly. most of its production will be used for the blended whisky but some of it will be used for their single malt whiskies.
and with succes because Tamdhu won a lot of awards for their single malt whisky.
- 12 year old single malt (Gold 2020)
- 15 year old single malt (Double Gold 2020)
- Single cask distilleries manager edition (World best single cask and single malt 2020)
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Owner
Ian Macleod Distillers
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Status
Operational
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Country
Scotland
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Region
Speyside
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Production type:
Single Malt and Blends(The Famous Grouse, Cutty Sark, Dunhill)
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Founded
1897
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Production yearly
4.000.000 Liters
History
Like neighbouring Knockando, this is another late 19th century railway distillery which has quietly provided fillings for blends ever since. It was built in 1897 by a group of blenders headed by William Grant who was both a director of Highland Distillers and, handily enough, on the board of the Elgin bank. The famous distillery designer Charles Doig was the architect. ‘[It is] perhaps the most efficient and designed distillery of its era,’ wrote Alfred Barnard in 1898.
Highland (now Edrington) purchased it outright in 1899, but like many sites it had a rocky time, closing from 1927 and remaining silent for two decades. Soon after its reopening, the old floor maltings were replaced with 10 Saladin boxes, each capable of holding 22 tons of malt. This would become the last site in Scotland to retain this method of malting and was one of the few distilleries in the modern era to malt all of its own requirements (the others being Springbank, Glen Ord and more recently, Roseisle). As well as its own needs, it supplied all of the malt for Glenrothes and the unpeated component of Highland Park’s.
Tamdhu grew substantially in the 1970s with four stills added to the original pair, while a change in wood policy in the 1990s saw it being filled exclusively into Edrington’s bespoke ex-Sherry casks.
Somewhat surprisingly, Edrington mothballed it in 2010, but two years later, Ian MacLeod stepped in. The firm has since installed new washbacks, built new warehouses, opened a visitors’ centre (in the old Dalbeallie station) and released a 100% Sherried 10-year-old. Older releases are planned.
March 2017 Tamdhu bottled their oldest expression the Tamdhu 50 year old. A Single Caskwith 1st fill European oak sherry butt and a
Cask Strength of 55.6% ABV. The cask number used was No. 4678 with a total of 100 decanters.
Distillery Facts
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PPM:
1-2
Spirit Stills:
3 with 14.000 liters still charge
Wash Still:
3 wash still with a capacity of 10.031 liters amount of wash still charge. Wash still shape onion
Water Source:
Spring/ borehole
Washbacks:
9 washbacks with a capacity of 53.500 liters. Type of wash back used wood.
New Make Spirit:
71% ABV
Filling strength will be 69.8% abv
Warehouses:
Dunnage and racks warehouses.
Yeast type:
Kerry M & MX
Malt supplier:
Crisp and Simpsons
Taste profile
- Medium – bodied
- Medium sweetness, floral, honey, malty, and fruity notes
- Low winey, nutty, smokey notes
Core range
At this point Tamdhu’s core range is:
Archive bottles:
- Dalbeallie Dram Collector’s Journey
- Single cask Distillery Managers Edition
- Iain Whitecross SC
- Tamdhu exclusive Edinburgh Airport Single Cask
- Tamdhu Gran Reserva
- Tamdhu ámbar 14 year old
- Tamdhu 50 years old
Awards
12 year old
2020: Gold
Scotch whisky masters
2020: Double gold
San Francisco World Spirits Competition
2020: 95 points:
Ultimate Spirit Challenge
15 year old
2020: Double Gold Winner
San Francisco World Spirits Competition
Single cask distillery manager’s edition
World Whisky Awards 2020:
Worlds best single cask
Worlds Best single malt
CONTACT DETAILS
- Tamdhu Distillery
Knockando
Moray
AB38 7RP
United Kingdom
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+44 1340 840695
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info@tamdhu.com