Facts about this distillery
Established
1824
Owner
Pernod Richard
Annual Capacity
5,800,000 Litres
Region
Speyside
Number of Stills
Six pot stills – 3 wash, 3 spirit
Website
N/A
Miltonduff Distillery. The triple distilled single malt Scotch.
Six miles south-west of Elgin, within the hallowed grounds of Pluscarden Abbey, lies Speyside’s imposing Miltonduff Distillery. Milton became Miltonduff after the Duff family purchased the area and constructed the whisky distillery in 1824. The site was initially chosen for its clean, pure water source – perfect freshwater for distillation.
The distillery was acquired by William Stuart in 1866. By going into business with Thomas Yool in 1890, Stuart expanded the distillery significantly. In fact, it could produce one million litres of alcohol a year – making it one of the largest producers in Scotland. Furthermore, the alcohol was triple distilled – a remarkably unconventional distillation process for any Scottish distillery at the time.
Miltonduff Distillery blends with Pernod Ricard.
In 2005, Pernod Ricard bought Allied Domecq and listed the Miltonduff Distillery under their subsidiary, Chivas Brothers (Pernod Ricard took control of Chivas Brothers, with Diageo in 2001, when it bought Seagram Spirits & Wine).
Miltonduff changed hands several times until Chivas Brothers announced that they’d invest £88 million in the expansion of the site in May 2002. The introduction of state-of-the-art energy efficient production methods were part of the modernisation.
Pernod Ricard own the distillery today, and most of their Miltonduff spirit production – almost six million litres per year – which is mainly used in Ballantine’s blended whisky.
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