Following the 1897 Diamond Jubilee a consortium of the whisky trade raised today's equivalent of £20 million and set out to construct the most advanced distillery yet devised. Having acquired a site on the banks of the River Spey, they enlisted the ingenuity of Charles C Doig - the pre-eminent distillery architect and engineer of the day. Doig insisted upon employing only the most advanced
techniques of whisky production, delivering unrivalled consistency and quality. Doig designed and built a water wheel positioned beneath the floor for optimum performance, kilns redesigned to reduce heat loss and waste extracted by Archimedean Screw, direct to the distillery's own railway station.
Tamdhu lived on through the ups and downs of the 20th Century on the banks of the River Spey, until it was closed in 2010. In 2011 Ian Macleod Distillers, an independent family company took ownership. Re-commissioned in 2012, the new owners set out to return this eminent malt to its former glory, ensuring the sherry caska are of the same type insisted upon when the distillery was established in 1897. The casks are either first or second fill, European or American oak. Today every cask is still matured on the banks of the Spey in traditional dunnage distillery warehouses.Show more