Facts about this distillery
Established
1798
Owner
Distell
Annual Capacity
1,000,000 Litres
Region
Highland
Number of Stills
Eight pot stills – 4 wash, 4 spirit
Tobermory Distillery. One of Scotland’s oldest working distilleries.
Located in Scotland’s Hebridean island of Mull, Tobermory Distillery sits at the foot of the rainbow. Not a real rainbow – more a row of houses all painted in an array of different colours. It’s possibly the most colourful street, and striking shoreline, in Scotland.
Ledaig never actually left the distillery.
The inviting distillery was founded in 1798 by John Sinclair and named Ledaig. The distillery never performed well and faced several tumultuous years – yet even today, Tobermory continues to sell Ledaig, as their heavily peated single malt Scotch option.
Ledaig/Tobermory – don’t let the name confuse you, it’s the same distillery after all. After several closures, the eponymous Distillers Company (today’s ‘Diageo’) took over in 1916.
Contrary to the belief of many, Ledaig wasn’t renamed Tobermory until late on in the 20th century, 1979 to be precise, after Ledaig went bankrupt in 1975. The ‘rubber chipping company’ Kirkleavington Property Co. owned it between 1979 and 1993.
Blending into the current day.
The distillery was then purchased by Burn Stewart Distillers in 1993, and BSD’s parent owners Distell, continue to own it to this day. BSD use the whisky in their Black Bottle and Scottish Leader blends.
Tobermory’s notable sellers are the spicy, fruity and subtly saline 12- and 21-year-olds. Even the Ledaig 10- and 21-year-olds, among other Ledaig specialities remain as the ‘heavily peated’ side of the business.
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