Distillery Name : Bruichladdich Distillery
Distillery Area : Highland, Islay, Scotland
Product : Malt Whisky
Operated Between : 1881 - Present
Current Status : Active
Location : Bruichladdich, Islay.
Map Grid Reference : NR264612
Current Owner : Rémy Cointreau
Notes :
Timeline
1881 - Distillery built by Robert, William and John Gourlay Harvey (of the Dundas and Yoker Harveys) with money from a trust established by their father, a well known distiller in Glasgow, under the style of Robert Harvey & Co.
1886 - Reconstructed as the Bruichladdich Distillery Co. (Islay) Ltd. with Harvey family shareholdings.
1929-37 - The Harveys were forced to close the doors of their last distillery.
1938 - Sold to Hatim Attari, Joseph W. Hobbs and Alexander W. Tolmie, and passed then to Associated Scottish Distilleries Ltd. (ASD), subsidiary of Train & McIntyre Ltd., themselves owned by National Distillers of America.
1952 - Sold to Ross & Coulter Ltd., whisky brokers.
1960 - Acquired by A.B. Grant.
1968 - A.B. Grant sold the distillery to Invergordon Distillers (Holdings) Ltd.
1975 - Extended from two to four stills.
1994 - Ownership to Whyte & Mackay.
1995 - Mothballed by Whyte & Mackay.
1999 - Owned by Jim Beam (JBB).
December 2000 - Sold to a consortium of mainly local investors led by independent bottler Murray McDavid.
2001 - Distillery reopened.
2003 - Installation of own bottling line.
February 2006 - First attempt of a quadruple distillation.
2010 - Last authentic Lomond Still installed (originally from Iverleven Distillery).
July 2012 - Rémy Cointreau reach an agreement with Bruichladdich to buy the distillery for a sum of £58m.
References
The Scotch Whisky Industry Record - H. Charles Craig, 1994.
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Wikipedia.org