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Blair Athol distillery is a Highland single malt Scotch whisky distillery located on the south edge of Pitlochry in Perthshire, near the River Tummel in Scotland. It is used in Bell's whisky, and is also normally available in a 12-year-old bottling. [2]
Bell's Scotch Whisky barrel at the Blair Athol distillery in Pitlochry, Perthshire. Bell's is a brand of blended Scotch whisky produced by Diageo in Scotland.It was originally produced by Arthur Bell & Sons Ltd and is one of the best selling whiskies in the UK, only slightly behind The Famous Grouse which is the best selling Scotch whisky on the island.
The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom. Edinburgh: Birlinn. ISBN 978-1-84158-652-6. Townsend, Brian (2000). Scotch Missed: The Lost Distilleries of Scotland. Angel's Share. ISBN 978-1897784976.
Town clock Fishers Hotel on Atholl Road Fish ladder in Pitlochry. The town has two whisky distilleries. Edradour is the smallest legal distillery in Scotland, and Blair Athol Distillery, [9] which has a popular visitor centre, dates back to 1798. Edradour sits to the east of town at the foot of the Moulin Moor.
Blair Atholl (from the Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Athall, originally Blàr Ath Fhodla [2]) is a village in Perthshire, Scotland, built about the confluence of the Rivers Tilt and Garry in one of the few areas of flat land in the midst of the Grampian Mountains. [3] The Gaelic place-name Blair, from blàr, 'field, plain', refers to this location.
The whisky produced started to be used in White Horse blends and since 1977 in single malt whisky. [3] In 1987, The Distillers Company was renamed as United Distillers. [4] In 1997, with the merger of Guinness plc (United Distillers owner) and Grand Metropolitan, Glen Elgin distillery become part of the new company, Diageo. [5]
The region of West Highland was created to separate between Oban and Dalwhinnie. Talisker is the only distillery on the Isle of Skye, which has never been a whisky region unto itself, [6] but would be in the Island subregion; though this categorisation enabled UDV to include both Talisker and Lagavulin, strongly flavoured malts with strong ...
Glengoyne is regularly referred to as the "most beautiful distillery in Scotland". [6] [9] [11] [12] The distillery has been in continuous operation producing Highland single malt whisky for over 175 years [4] with a current distilling capacity of over one million litres of alcohol and over 35,000 visitors per annum. [13]