Coordinates: 57°20′20″N 4°0′33″W / 57.33889°N 4.00917°W / 57.33889; -4.00917

Tomatin

Tomatin Distillery
Region: Highland
Location	Inverness
Owner	Takara Shuzo Corp.
Founded	1897
Status	Operational
Water source	Alt-na-Frith Burn
Number of stills	12 wash 11 spirit
Capacity	5,050,000 litres per year
Tomatin
Type	Single malt
Age(s)	Twelve Year, Fifteen Year, Eighteen Year, Twenty Five
Cu Bocan
Type	Single malt (lightly peated)
Age(s)	NAS
Antiquary
Type	Blended
Age(s)	Twelve Year Old, Twenty One Year Old, 1977
Talisman
Type	Blended

Tomatin distillery is a single malt Scotch whisky distillery in the village of Tomatin. Its whisky is of the Highland region.

Although it is thought that whisky has been distilled on the site since the 16th century, when cattle drivers would buy from a local still,^[1] the distillery was not established until 1897, under the name of Tomatin Spey Distillery Co Ltd. The company went bankrupt in 1906, and reopened under new ownership in 1909. After the liquidation of its owners in 1986, it was taken over by Japanese conglomerate Takara Shuzo and was renamed Tomatin Distillery Co Ltd.

The distillery operated with only two stills until 1958. Starting at that time, they began to add stills to increase production capacity, eventually reaching production of twelve million litres of whisky per year during the 1970s. Although in 1987 Tomatin was referred to as the largest malt distillery in Scotland,^[2] stills have been dismantled since the mid-1980s, bringing their total capacity to just over five million litres, though as of 2007, they were only producing 2.5 million litres.

Around eighty percent of Tomatin's whisky goes into blended whisky, including its own brands of Antiquary and Talisman. The distillery, as of late, has been making an effort to bolster its name as a producer of single malts and is expanding its core range. In 2003, Tomatin's basic 10-year-old malt was replaced by the 12-year-old. In 2009, a 15 Year was added to the line-up, which also includes an 18-year-old and a 25-year-old. Other limited releases are often made, including a 30-year, a 40-year and single-cask offerings. Recently, the distillery has begun to produce a lightly peated single malt called Cu Bocan.

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External links[edit]

• Official website

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