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Aberlour
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Pronounced : aber-lowr.
Built : 1879.
Current Owner : Pernod Ricard.
Prod Cap : 3,200,000 Litres.
The original Aberlour distillery was built by James Gordon and Peter Weir in 1826. James Fleming founded a new distillery in 1879, after a l.. |
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Allt-a-Bhainne
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Pronounced : alta-bane.
Built : 1975.
Current Owner : Pernod Ricard.
Prod Cap : 4,000,000 Litres.
It was built in 1975 to supply malt whisky for Chivas Regal Blends. Allt-a-Bhainne means "the milk burn" in Gaelic. The distillery sits on t.. |
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An Cnoc
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Pronounced : an-nock.
Built : 1894.
Current Owner : Inver House Distillers.
The first official bottling of this malt was in 1990, almost a century after the distillery's foundation. The distillery is in the village of Knock, between the ri.. |
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Auchroisk
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Pronounced : awkh-roshk.
Built : 1986.
Current Owner : Diageo.
Prod Cap : 3,100,000.
Auchroisk is Gaelic for "ford across the red stream". Next to the distilleries location can be found the Dorie's Well. Extensive testing was done on the .. |
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Aultmore
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House style: Malty, herbal and oaky.
Aultmore, which is Gaelic for the 'big burn', was built two and a half miles north of Keith in 1896 by Alexander Edward - the then owner of Benrinnes distillery. The distillery was bought by John Dewar an.. |
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Balmenach
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House style: Often sherried, with a spicy, honey character.
We are all fans of Balmenach at Royal Mile Whiskies, and none more so than Sandy, our assistant manager in the Edinburgh shop. He grew up at the distillery where his father was stillm.. |
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Balvenie
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House style: Sweet, creamy and honeyed, it's very difficult not to like this whisky!
Right next door to its sister distillery Glenfiddich, and owned by the Grant family which founded both distilleries. Balvenie was built next to the castle of the.. |
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Benriach
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House style: Michael Jackson describes it as cookie-like! Certainly a sweet, easy-going Speysider although there are heavily peated exceptions.
John Duff, the owner and founder of the Longmorn Distillery, built Benriach in 1898. The distillery is .. |
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Benromach
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House style: Full flavoured, medium-bodied, floral and malty
Benromach celebrated their centenary in 1998 by being officially reopened by Prince Charles. The distillery nearly never got going in the first place when one of the original partners F.. |
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Caperdonich
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House style: Smooth and lightly smoky.
Caperdonich distillery was initially built in 1897 as Glen Grant No.2 as a back up to its parent distillery. However following the Pattison's crash the distillery soon closed as the demand for whisky disappe.. |
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