Facts about this distillery
Established
1898
Owner
Pernod Ricard
Annual Capacity
1,830,000 Litres
Region
Speyside
Number of Stills
Six pot stills – three wash, three spirit
Website
N/A
Glen Elgin Distillery. Diageo strikes again, with a striking Speysider.
A state-of-the-art distillery, built by William Simpson and James Carle in 1898. Its architect, Charles Doig, predicted it would be the last distillery built in Speyside for at least 50 years. His prediction was right, and Glen Elgin Distillery was indeed the last distillery to be built in the whisky boom years of Scotch production. It is still active today; being kept operational by whisky’s multi-national Diageo.
In 1936, the Glen Elgin was purchased by Scottish Malt Distiller, a subsidiary of The Distillers Company (renamed United Distillers in 1987, before they became Diageo in 2002). The pure spirit was mainly used in blended Scotch’s. Glen Elgin became a single malt in 1977.
1930. The year Glen Elgin single malt Scotch really took off.
In 1930, Glen Elgin produced a sweet, toasted oats flavour whisky. The quality was recognised in blends, especially the famous – yet now dissolved by Diageo in 2010 – White Horse blended Scotch. To this day Diageo keeps the dram and distillery alive; with the current capacity being around 2 million litres every year.
Glen Elgin distillery produced a range of floral, buttery single malt Scotches, namely, a 12-, 16-, 20- and 32-year-old. Yet today, it is only the 12-year-old which continues to be produced. The distillery occasionally releases limited edition whiskies, such as the 18-year-old expression. Older Glen Elgin whiskies are limited from independent bottlers.
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