Speyside Cooperage
The Speyside Cooperage is the only Scottish cooperage that manufactures whiskey barrels and repaired. It is located in Craigellachie ( Scottish Gaelic Creag Eileachaidh ), a village in the Scottish Council Area Moray in the Speyside whiskey region .
The company was founded in 1947 and sold to the French company Tonnellerie François Frères in 2008.
Around 150,000 oak barrels are currently produced annually. Only a very small proportion of these are new products, the predominant business consists in the reconditioning of used barrels. On the one hand, these are barrels that come from bourbon , sherry and port wine production . On the other hand, old whiskey barrels, the wood of which does not give off any more aromas after repeated use, are reprocessed for reuse by grinding and charring.
Speyside Cooperage has its own visitor center and is the only cooperage on the Malt Whiskey Trail . During sightseeing tours, the work on the barrels can be observed from a visitor gallery.
Web links
- Speyside Cooperage - Official Website