About Edradour Whisky Distillery
Distillery Number
01796 472095
Distillery Founded
1825
Distillery Status
Active
Distillery Address
Pitlochry, Perthshire
Distillery Owner
Signatory Vintage Scotch Whisky Co. Ltd
Distillery Website
www.edradour.com
1825
This is probably the year when a distillery called Glenforres is founded by farmers in Perthshire.
1837
The first year Edradour is mentioned.
1841
The farmers form a proprietary company, John MacGlashan & Co.
1886
The American company J. G. Turney & Sons acquires Edradour through its subsidiary William Whitely & Co.
1922
William Whiteley buys the distillery in order to produce its own blended whiskies, among them King’s Ransom and House of Lords. The distillery is renamed Glenforres-Glenlivet.
1975
Pernod Ricard buys Campbell Distilleries.
1982
Campbell Distilleries (Pernod Ricard) buys Edradour and builds a visitors’ centre.
1986
Edradour’s first single malt (10 years) is released.
2002
Edradour is bought by Andrew Symington from Signatory Vintage Scotch Whisky for £5.4 million (£3 million consists of stocks). The product range is expanded in autumn with a 10 year old and a 13 year old cask strength. Iain Henderson, Distillery Manager at Laphroaig, becomes Director of Operations at Edradour.
2003
A 30 year old and a 10 year old that are non chill-filtered are released. As an experiment a heavily peated variety (50ppm) is also distilled.
2004
A number of wood finishes (port, sauternes, burgundy and chardonnay) are launched as cask strength.
2006
James McGowan becomes the new distillery manager. The first bottling of peated Ballechin is released.
2007
A Madeira matured Ballechin is released.
2008
A Ballechin matured in port pipes and a 10 year old Edradour with a Sauternes finish are released.