Grandtully (whiskey distillery)
| Grandtully | |
|---|---|
| country | Scotland |
| region | Highlands |
| Geographical location | 56 ° 38 '3.9 " N , 3 ° 49' 41.4" W |
| Type | Paint |
| status | Closed in 1910 |
| owner | |
| Founded | 1825 |
| founder | Andrew Campbell & Co. |
| Production volume | 5,000 gallons (1885) |
Grandtully , also known as Granthly , was a whiskey distillery near Aberfeldy , Perth and Kinross , Scotland . The brandy produced was therefore assigned to the Highlands whiskey region . Grandtully, along with Ballechin and Auchnagie, belonged to a group of rural distilleries in the area, of which Edradour is the only one still active today.
history
The distillery was in 1825 by A. Campbell & Co built. Over the next nine years, the owner changed four times until it fell into the hands of James Thomson in 1837 , whose family ran the business until it closed in 1910. Grandtully was one of the smallest distilleries in Scotland.
When Alfred Barnard visited the distillery as part of his major whiskey tour in 1886, it had an annual production capacity of 5,000 gallons of malt whiskey . There was a pot stills with a capacity of 500 gallons are available.
Fraud case
The name of the Grandtully distillery was used for fraudulent transactions between 1992 and 1997, around 70 years after it was closed. Here whiskey from the alleged Grandtully distillery was sold to investors by the barrel with the prospect of high profits. However, the selling price was already well above the value of the barrels. In addition, illusory returns were promised. The barrels came from the young distillery The Speyside , which itself was not involved in the scheme. The mastermind was sentenced to five years imprisonment for fraud.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b A. Barnard : The Whiskey Distilleries of the United Kingdom , 1887, pp. 276-277.
- ↑ Entry on wormtub.com
- ↑ Ulf Buxrud: Lost Scotch Malt Whiskey Distilleries 1888–1945 , 2000 ( Memento from April 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ A. Cave: "Liquid gold" whiskey man is found guilty of fraud , The Telegraph, April 24, 2004
- ↑ T. Thorniley: Whiskey fraudster jailed for five years , The Telegraph, 22 May 2004