Tullibardine Single Malt Scottish Whisky

Tullibardine

About Tullibardine Whisky

The Tullibardine distillery takes its name from the nearby Tullibardine Moor in the north east of Blackford. The distillery was constructed within the walls of a redundant brewery, one of three breweries in existence in the village at one time. It was from this former brewery that King James IV purchased his beer in 1488, hence the crown and date which appears on Tullibardine’s whisky and beer today.

The conversion from Brewery to Distillery at Tullibardine took place in 1947 under the ownership of William Delme Evans, who also designed both the Jura and Glenallachie distilleries. In 1949, Tullibardine distillery produced spirit for the first time and ran under Delme Evans ownership until 1953 where failing health forced him to sell it. The distillery had a series of owners since then, one owner doubling the size of the distillery in 1974 and installing the still in current use today.

In 1994 Whyte and Mackay decided to mothball Tullibardine Distillery along with several other malt distilleries under their ownership due to an excess of distillation capacity within their company. The distillery then lay dormant until June of 2003 when it was bought, along with some of the existing stock of Tullibardine whisky, by a consortium of five business men. In December of 2003 with the expertise of John Black as distillery manager, Tullibardine distillery once again fired up the boiler and spirit flowed from the stills for the first time in nearly nine years.

Throughout the re-commissioning process, care was taken to maintain as many of the traditional methods of production as possible and utilise the skills of the distillery manager and operators in producing the Tullibardine spirit. Whilst Tullibardine may have seen many changes over the years, what had not changed is the plentiful supply of crystal pure spring water which continually flows past the distillery from the Ochil hills above.

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