George Christie, a noted Scottish entrepreneur and whisky enthusiast, decided to build a new distillery opposite the location of the old Drumguish Distillery. Christie hired Alex Fairlie to begin construction on a new distillery, which took nearly 30 years to complete.
1987
Building
completed
1990
First distillation at The Speyside Distillery.
The Speyside
Distillery Comments
Original
Drumguish Distillery 1895 – 1911, stood opposite
new distillery
The new distillery was built by "dry stane dyking", a centuries old method which was practised by a small number of craftsmen.
Scott’s Selection, is a line of independent bottlings from Speyside Distillers Co. Ltd. featuring rare single malts from some of Scotland’s finest distilleries.