Speyside Cooperage

The Speyside Cooperage is a cooperage located in Craigellachie, Aberlour, Scotland. Its visitor centre, the only such in Britain, is part of the Malt Whisky Trail.[1] [2]

Speyside Cooperage

Each year, it produces and repairs nearly 150,000 oak casks used by the surrounding Speyside Whisky distilleries, as well as distilleries elsewhere throughout Scotland.[1]

Owned by the Taylor family since its founding in 1947, the cooperage was sold in 2008 to the French firm Tonnellerie François Frères.[3]

Barrel storage in the open
The Malt Whisky Trail Map

Started in the early 1980s, Scotland's Malt Whisky Trail of seven working Speyside single malt distilleries also includes a historic distillery (Dallas Dhu, now a museum) and the Speyside Cooperage.[4]

According to a 2012 BBC article, visitors to the cooperage can view the making of a cask from start to completion, employing "traditional methods and tools for creating exceptional casks from American oak, many of which are sent around the world".[5]

References
  1. Smith, Gavin (1 November 1998). "Speyside Cooperage". The Scottish Malt Whisky Society. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
  2. MacDonald, Ian (29 April 2005). "Fish tales and the Whisky Trail". BBC. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
  3. Bradley, Jane (4 April 2008). "French buy Speyside Cooperage". The Scotsman. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
  4. "Malt Whiskey Trail". Visit Scotland. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2019.

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