Tobermory distillery
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| Region: Isle of Mull | |
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| Owner | Burn Stewart (Distell) |
| Founded | 1798 |
| Founder | John Sinclair |
| Status | active |
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| Website | http://www.tobermorymalt.com/ |
| 10 year old | |
| Age(s) | 10 years old |
| 15 year old | |
| Age(s) | 15 years old |
| Ledaig (standard, sherry, 15, 20, 31, 32) | |
Coordinates: 56°37′14″N 6°4′14″W / 56.62056°N 6.07056°W
Tobermory distillery is a Scotch whisky distillery situated on the Hebridean island of Mull, Scotland in the village of Tobermory. The distillery, which was formerly known as Ledaig, was founded in 1798 and has changed hands several times, having undergone a number of periods of closure. The only distillery on Mull, it is currently owned by Burn Stewart Distillers, a subsidiary of Distell Group Limited of South Africa. Its main product, Tobermory single malt, is used in the blends Scottish Leader and Black Bottle. The distillery also produces a smaller amount of peated whisky, which remains known under the former name, Ledaig.
The distillery was founded as Ledaig distillery in 1798 by John Sinclair, ten years after the founding of Tobermory by the British Fisheries Society. Sinclair had originally arrived in the village as a merchant dealing with soda ash from burning the locally available kelp. In April 1797, he applied for 57 acres to the south of the harbor in order to build houses and a distillery. Distilling had been banned in the UK since 1795 in order to save grain for the War of the First Coalition with France. Although he was originally told to build a brewery instead, he remained with the original plan and additionally built a pier known as "Sinclair's Quay".
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