Dailuaine distillery

Dailuaine (Scottish Gaelic: Dail Uaine, [t̪alˈuəɲə], "Green Meadow") is a single malt whisky distillery in Charlestown-of-Aberlour, Strathspey, Scotland.

Dailuaine
Region: Speyside
OwnerDiageo
Founded1852
StatusActive
Water sourceThe Bailliemullich Burn
No. of stills3 wash stills (18.700 liter),
3 spirit stills(20.500 liter)[1]
Capacity3,370,000 litres

History

The Distillery was founded in 1852 by William Mackenzie. When he died in 1865 his widow leased the distillery to James Fleming, a banker from Aberlour. Together with William Mackenzie's son he founded Mackenzie and Company.

  • 1863 Branch line opened to the distillery from Carron station on the Strathspey Railway, 1.25 miles long.[2]
  • 1884 Dailuaine is renovated and enlarged.
  • 1891 Dailuaine-Glenlivet Distillery Ltd. was founded. In 1898, Dailuaine-Glenlivet and Talisker Distillery Ltd. are fused to Dailuaine-Talisker Distilleries Ltd.
  • 1899 Charles C. Doig designs a new distillery with a pagoda like roof that becomes the standard design for Scottish distilleries.[3]
  • 1915 Thomas Mackenzie died and the company was sold to John Dewar & Sons, John Walker & Sons and James Buchanan & Co. one year later.
  • 1917 a fire destroyed the pagoda-roof. The distillery had to close, reopened three years later and was bought by Distillers Company Limited (DCL) in 1925.
  • 1960 the Distillery is completely renovated and is enlarged from four to six stills. Since 1983 the malt is no longer produced inhouse.
  • 1939 New 0-4-0ST loco purchased from the Caledonia Works of Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. Ltd., Kilmarnock (AB2073/1939) to work the branch to the mainline at Carron. Loco named after the distillery, DAILUAINE.[2]
  • 1987 Dailuaine was taken over by United Distillers (UD).

See also

References
  1. Daluaine distillery
  2. Cooke, B.W.C., ed. (October 1966). "Born 1939—Still Going Strong". Railway Magazine. Vol. 112 no. 786. pp. 594–595.
  3. Brian Townsend (15 July 2015). Scotch Missed: The Original Guide to the Lost Distilleries of Scotland. Neil Wilson Publishing. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-1-906000-88-2.


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