Dailuaine distillery explained

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Dailuaine distillery
Type:	Speyside
Location:	Charlestown-of-Aberlour, Strathspey
Owner:	Diageo
Founded:	1852
Status:	Active
Source:	The Bailliemullich Burn
Stills:	3 wash stills (18.700 L) 3 spirit stills (20.500 L)^[1]
Capacity:	3,370,000 litres

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

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.
• 1987 Dailuaine was taken over by United Distillers (UD).

See also

• Speyside single malt
• Whisky
• Scotch whisky
• List of whisky brands
• List of distilleries in Scotland

External links

• Dailuaine Distillery

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20141210171545/http://www.whisky.com/whisky-database/distilleries/details/fdb/Distilleries/Details//dailuaine.html Daluaine distillery
2. Born 1939—Still Going Strong . Railway Magazine . 112 . October 1966 . 594–595 . B.W.C. . Cooke . 786 .
3. Book: Brian Townsend. Scotch Missed: The Original Guide to the Lost Distilleries of Scotland. 15 July 2015. Neil Wilson Publishing. 978-1-906000-88-2. 13–.