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Glenallachie
Founded
1967
Region
Speyside
Status
Operational
Production type
Single Malt
Production capacity
4,000,000 litres per year
Glenallachie is a Speyside malt distillery, situated to the south of the river Spey in the town after which it is named. It was built in 1967 by Scottish & Newcastle Breweries through its Scotch whisky division, Mackinlay-McPherson.
Mackinlay-McPherson was acquired by Invergordon Distillers in 1985 and Glenallachie was deemed surplus to its requirements, mothballed until 1989 when it was sold to Pernod Ricard's Campbell Distillers division in 1989. In 2017 it was acquired by Billy Walker via The Glenallachie Distillers Company and has since emerged and an increasingly respected single malt brand, also launching a second, peated single malt label called Meikle Tòir in 2023.
The first iteration of the Glenallachie single malt brand was introduced around 1982 by Mackinlay-McPherson. Simple yellow-labelled designs with an illustration of the William Delmé-Evans-designed distillery, it was only available as a 12-year-old expression. The earliest examples also featured a vintage, with both a 1969 and a 1970 bottled.
Official bottlings were discontinued following its acquisition and subsequent closure by Invergordon Distillers, and it was not until 2016 that a dedicated Glenallachie brand would return. This time it was even shorter-lived, with the Distillery Edition introduced by Chivas Brothers promptly discontinued the following year when the distillery was sold (they quickly repurposed the branding for Glen Keith single malt instead).
One of the key aims of Billy Walker's The Glenallachie Distillers Company was to finally cement the distillery as a key single malt brand, and in 2018 it launched the first multi-product core range in its history, featuring a 12-, 18- and 25-year-old, and a batch-released cask strength 10-year-old. These are joined today by an 8- and 15-year-old, and another numbered batch-release aged 21 years.
Current owner
2017-present
1989-2017
1988-1989
1985-1988
1967-1985
Glenallachie Distillery
Glenallachie
Aberlour
AB38 9LR
Scotland
Active brands
Single Malt
Single Malt
