About Convalmore Whisky Distillery
Distillery Founded
1894
Distillery Owner
Diageo
Distillery Status
Dismantled
Distillery Address
Dufftown, Banffshire
1893
Founded by the Convalmore–Glenlivet Distillery Company. Architect is Donald Mackay from Dufftown.
1894
Production starts in February.
1904
Convalmore-Glenlivet is purchased by the blending company W. P. Lowrie & Co. from Glasgow for £6 000.
1906
The new owner runs into financial troubles and James Buchanan, a major customer to Lowrie, buys the company including Convalmore Distillery.
1909
Large parts of the distillery are destroyed by a fire in October.
1910
The distillery is back in operation. Experimental distilling of malt whisky in continuous stills, i. e. the same method as used in production of grain whisky, takes place.
1916
The continuous still experiments are abandoned.
1925
Distillers Company Limited (DCL) buys the distillery from James Buchanan & Co.
1930
DCL transfers operations to Scottish Malt Distillers (SMD).
1962
Direct heating of the stills from a coal fire is abandoned for indirect heating by steam.
1964
The number of stills is increased from two to four.
1985
The distillery is mothballed.
1990
United Distillers sells the buildings to William Grant & Sons who uses them for storing their own malts Glenfiddich and Balvenie.
2003
Diageo launches a 24 year old Convalmore from 1978 in the Rare Malts series.
2005
A 28 year old is launched as a Special Release from Diageo
Reproduced from the Malt Whisky Yearbook 2009 with the kind permission of Mr Ingvar Ronde