5620 x 3733 px | 47,6 x 31,6 cm | 18,7 x 12,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2007
Ubicazione:
Tormore Speyside Advie Cromdale Grantown on Spey Highland Region
Altre informazioni:
The Tormore distillery is one of the most recent in Scotland, as it has been build between 1958 and 1960 for Long John International by the architect Sir Albert Richardson. It is also the first one to be build in the 20th century. Despite its young age, this distillery is already a listed building. For this reason, it is not allowed to change anything to its external aspect. One of the architectural particularities is the clock which bells each quarter of an hour, the copper rotors and the granite used for the building. The houses of the workers are build in the same style. The garden is remarkable too, with its hedges in the shape of a bell or a still. Long John has been absorbed by Whitbread & Co in 1975, and the distillery has been acquired in the same year by Allied Distillers Ltd. The Tormore distillery is under control of Pernod-Ricard since the French Company purchased the activities of Allied Domecq in 2005. The Speyside area is situated at the North of the Cairngorm mountain and goes to the Moray firth. It is delimited by two rivers: the Findhorn at the West side and the Deveron on the East side. The area is named after the river Spey. Most of the distilleries take their water in one of its affluents; the Fiddich, the Livet or the Avon. About sixty distilleries from Speyside are described on this site. The Tormore Distillery produces a perfect malt for the contemporary taste. The spirit quality is enhanced by the secondary purifiers on top of all eight stills, giving a subtle smoothness and balance to the whisky. The freshwater pearl mussels flourishing in the waters below the disitllery are testament to the absolute purity of the stream that tumbles in to the nearby river Spey.
