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Tomintoul Distillery
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Located near to the village Tomintoul, the highest village in the Highlands of Scotland in the prestigious Glenlivet Estate at the heart of the Speyside Region, lies Tomintoul distillery.
The Tomintoul Distillery is a distillery in Ballindalloch, in the Speyside region of Scotland, producing malt whisky for blends and bottled as single malts. The distillery was founded in 1964. It doubled in capacity when two extra stills were installed in 1974, and started bottling single malt whisky in that year. It produces a range of single malts of different ages, a peated malt, and a vintage malt. The distillery is owned and operated by Angus Dundee Distillers, PLC, of London, England, which also owns and operates the Glencadam distillery.
In 2009 Tomintoul entered the Guinness Book of World Records by producing the largest bottle of whisky in the world, containing 105.3 litres of 14-year-old Tomintoul malt whisky.
Tomintoul has two wash and two spirit stills, which are all steam heated, and have a total capacity of producing 3,300,000 litres of pure alcohol per year. It uses six stainless steel washbacks, 3 larger and 3 smaller. The water it uses for its whisky comes from the Ballantruan source. Cooling water is drawn from two nearby ponds.
The distillery offers three ranges of malts. The Tomintoul brand is a single malt offered in the ages 10, 12, 14, 16, 21 and 33 years old. The 12-year-old bottlings are available only in portwood and oloroso finishes, the others have no special finishes. It also produces a vatting of peated and unpeated malts under the name Peaty Tang, which bears no age indication. In the US, this offering is labeled “Tomintoul, the gentile dram with a peaty tang – Speyside Glenlivet”, in a 40%ABV 750ml bottling. Additionally, it has released a peated single malt called Ballantruan. Lastly, it bottles a 1976 vintage. The 33-year-old offering was chosen as best Speyside whisky of 2010 in the Whiskymag World Whiskies Awards.
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Owner
The Tomintoul Glenlivet Distillery
Parent company:
Angus Dundee Distillers -
Status
Operational
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Country
Scotland
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Region
Speyside
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Production type:
Single Malt
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Founded
1964
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Production yearly
3.300.000 Liters
History
It was founded in 1964 by the Glasgow whisky traders Hey & Macleod and W. and S. Strong, which set up a working company, Tomintoul Distillery Ltd. Production, to manage the distillery. At its founding the distillery had one wash still and one spirit still. The distillery was bought by Scottish and Universal Investment Trust in 1973 which doubled the production capacity by placing an extra pair of steam heated stills in the next year. That year, the distilleries 10 year anniversary, they also released the first bottling of their malt. Scottish and Universal was sold on to Whyte & Mackay (which was owned by Brent Walker) in 1989.
Whyte & Mackay itself was bought by American Brands in 1990, and in the same year, Tomintoul started selling a 12-year-old bottling of its malt in a distinctively styled bottle. The distillery itself was sold off to Angus Dundee in 2000, and under their management, the official bottling became the 10-year-old malt, sold in more conventional bottles. The official bottling portfolio expanded in the next years, with a 16-year-old malt in 2003 and a 27-year-old malt in 2004. A year later in 2005 a 1991 peaty vintage was released under the name ‘Old Ballantruan’, bottled at 50% ABV, followed by 12 year old finished on Oloroso butts, a vatting of unpeated and peated Tomintoul malts under the name ‘Peaty Tang’, and a 1976 vintage, all released around 2008.
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Distillery Facts
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Heat source:
Steam kettles
Spirit Stills:
2 with 11.500 liters of low wine added to the spirit still.
The spirit still has a capacity of 12.000 liters.
The shape of the spirit still is a boil balls
Wash Still:
2 wash still with a capacity of 15.000 liters amount of wash added to the still 15.000 liters.
Shape of the wash still boil balls.
Water Source:
Ballantruan Spring
Washbacks:
6 washbacks with a capacity of 59.500 liters each.
Type of wash back used stainless steel.
New Make Spirit:
68.5% ABV
Filling strength will be 68.5% ABV
Mash tun:
Semi lauter
Yeast type:
Distillers yeast
Malt supplier:
Various
Malt specifications:
No peat for normal spirit production
Peated malt 55 ppm
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Smaak profiel
- medium body
- medium zoetheid, honing en fruitige tonen
- medium moutig, nootachtig, kruiden
- low rokerige tonen
Core range
At this point Tomintoul core range is:
- 10 year old
- 12 year old Oloroso Finish
- 14 year old
- 15 year old Port Wood Finish
- 15 year old Peaty Tang
- 16 year old
- 21 year old
- 25 year old
- 40 year old Quadruple Cask
- Vintage Single Cask
- Vintage 1973
- Tomintoul Robert Fleming 3oth Anniversary
- Tomintoul Cigar Malt
- Tomintoul Seiridh
- Tomintoul Tlàth
- Tomintoul Peaty Tang
- Tomintoul Five Decades
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Distillery Tours
Enjoy a guided behind the scenes tour of Tomintoul Distillery, located in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park and see how our dedicated team use traditional distilling techniques that stretch back hundreds of years, to handcraft our award-winning single malt scotch whisky.
DURATION:
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CONTACT DETAILS
Ballindalloch
Moray
AB37 9AQ
United Kingdom
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tel: +44 1807 590274
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tomintoulsocial@angusdundee.co.uk