Tamnavulin Distillery, Speyside

The Tamnavulin Distillery dates back from 1966, when it was founded as part of the Invergordon Distillers group. It was subsequently acquired by White and Mackay, and eventually mothballed in 1995.

Located in Ballindalloch, Banffshire, it is the only distillery to be situated on the river Livet. In Gaelic dialect, a ‘tom’ is a small  hill and ‘mhoulin’ (just like the French ‘moulin’) means a mill, so Tamnavulin is ‘the hill with the mill’.

The style is fast-maturing, delicate, aromatic, with a herbal edge. A great aperitif single malt whisky.