The London Distillery Company
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| Type | Single malt English whisky |
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| Manufacturer | The London Distillery Company Ltd |
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London, SW11 United Kingdom |
| Introduced | 2011 |
The London Distillery Company, also known as TLDC, is a distillery based in a former Victorian dairy cold room in Battersea, London. TLDC produce English Whisky, London Gin and British spirits, compounds and cordials. TLDC also creates experimental spirits under the TESTBED brand; named after the art space of similar ethos by architect Will Alsop.
The company was founded in 2011 by Darren Rook, and angel investment expert and former microbrewery owner, Nick Taylor. TLDC is London’s first whisky distillery since the Lea Valley distillery closed in 1903.
In 1807 Ralph Dodd proposed to build a distillery in Nine Elms, London. The company, to be called The London Distillery Company, took receipt of monies and share subscriptions for transferable shares. Dodd created a board of directors from prominent peers and engineers, partly prompted by Dodd's involvement with an 1806 business proposal for the Vauxhall Bridge Company.
The board of directors comprised: James Heygate,Ralph Dodd, John Taylor, William Clay, William Norris, Fenwick Bulmer, Samuel Sharpe, John Moore, Matthew Wilson, James Norris, John Calvert Clarke, Thomas Rolle, Abraham Walker, John Moore and Christopher Dunkin.
Following a complaint by a prominent Essex-based corn distillery headed by Tory MP Philip Metcalfe the English Crown brought a case against Dodd and The London Distillery Company under the 1720 Bubble Act. This was after raising funds, assembling staff and acquiring the Old Water Mill at Nine Elms on the Thames for £12,000. As the first case to be made under this act the Crown hired barrister Sir William Garrow as prosecutor. Dodd lost the case and the business was disbanded.
After reading an article in the Scotch Malt Whisky Society's Unfiltered magazine, and attending a Burns Night whisky tasting and dinner in 2010, TLDC co-founder, Nick Taylor, wondered why there no whisky distillery in London. After asking the evening's host if he knew the right person to start such a project, he was introduced to whisky ambassador and former manager of the London branch of the Society, Darren Rook. The London Distillery Company Ltd was incorporated at Companies House on 24 June 2011 by Rook and Taylor.
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