Miltonduff Scotch Whisky

Miltonduff Whisky Distillery Information

Founded in 1824 by Andrew Peary & Robert Bain

Location Speyside region Central district South west of Elgin

Water source The Black Burn.

Miltonduff Whisky Distilling Equipment

Stainless steel mash tun

16 stainless steel washbacks

3 wash and 3 spirit stills

Matured in American oak bourbon casks stored in warehouses on site

Miltonduff Whisky Distillery History

The distillery is situated close to the famous Pluscarden Abbey – said to have at one time produced the finest ale in Scotland. This was attributed to the waters being drawn from the Black Burn that had been blessed by a Saintly abbot in the 15th century .

Established in 1824 by Andrew Peary & Robert Bain the distillery was amongst the first officially licensed distilleries. In 1866 it was sold to William Stuart.

When Alfred Barnard visited in 1877 he recorded ”some of the oldest fads and methods are in use, and the ancient style of stills and utensils, as carried only by the smugglers, have also been continued.”

At some point in the 1890s Thomas Yool & Co unite with William Stuart and a period of renovation and rebuilding takes place. The distillery was badly affected in the whisky recession that followed the Pattison bankruptcy, 1898..

In 1936 Thomas Yool & Co sold the distillery to Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts Ltd. The following year Hiram Walker & Sons (Scotland) Ltd acquires control, who licensed it to George Ballentine & Sons

At some stage in 1964 two Lomond type stills added for production of a spirit referred to as “Mosstowie”

Further rebuilding work in 1974 adds more wash backs. Then in1981The Lomond Stills used to distil Mosstowie stills are changed to conventional stills to meet the need for an increase production of Miltonduff.

Allied Distillers acquire control in 1992 then in 2005 Fortune Brands Inc. obtain control.

The Majority of production is used in Ballantine’s blends

Gordon & MacPhail bottle the whisky as a single malt on behalf of the distillery

Mosstowie is still available from Duncan Taylor,Gordon & MacPhail and Blackadder International.

Miltonduff Distillery Bottlings

Miltonduff 12 Year Old (bottled by Gordon & MacPhail)

Miltonduff 15 year Old

Miltonduff Whisky Independent Bottlings

 "Cask Strength" selection Duncan Taylor

Gordon & MacPhail

Hart Brothers

Old Malt Cask (Douglas Laing),

Peerless

Private Cellar (Speyside Distillers)

Scotts Selection (Speyside Distillers)

Un-Chill Filtered (Signatory).

Mosstowie Whisky Independent Bottlings

Blackadder International (Mosstowie)

Cadenhead’s (Mosstowie),

Connoisseurs Choice (Gordon & MacPhail),

Rarest of the Rare (Duncan Taylor).

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