Glentauchers distillery is a

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Scottish

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, founded in 1897. The building was designed by John Alcock, and overseen by Charles Doig & Son. It starting producing when James Buchanan Co. Ltd. and three members of Glentauchers Distillery Co. joined hands with Glentauchers a year after that. It was mothballed by

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in 1985, and sold to Allied Distillers in 1989. Malts from this distillery are rarely bottled, usually, the produced whisky is used in

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. In 2000, an official bottling was released. This was a 15-year-old whisky. Before that a semi-official bottling was released by

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in the 1990s. The distillery has three spirit stills and three wash stills, with a total production capacity of of pure alcohol per year.Helen Artur, single malt whisky. The distillery and the hamlet of Tauchers were served by

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until 1964 with a freight siding also at one time running to the distillery.

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