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Dalmunach Distillery, Scotland
Chivas Brothers Scotch Whisky Speyside Building, Moray, northern Scotland ? design by Archial Norr Architects
page updated 25 May 2019 ; 23 Jun 2015
Dalmunach Distillery Speyside
Design: Archial Norr (Inverness Studio)
With a plan inspired by the shape of a sheaf of barley, the design is a conscious balance between the honest aesthetics of a crisp modern industrial building and one with a strong sense of place.

photograph © Archial Norr Inverness
A new malt whisky distillery in Speyside has been officially opened on the site of the former Imperial Distillery in Carron. ?Chivas Brothers executives never considered keeping the Imperial name for the new distillery, which was demolished in 2012 after being mothballed in 1998?, according to whiskycast.com. ?It is the 14th malt distillery in the Chivas Brothers Scotch whisky portfolio, second only in size to Diageo?s 28 malt distilleries?.
photograph © Archial Norr Inverness
The French-owned Chivas Brothers Ltd, part of Pernod Ricard, built the £25m Dalmunach facility on the site of a former distillery near Carron in Moray, reports the BBC. It is Scotland?s 115th working whisky distillery.
The Dalmunach Distillery in Speyside ? named after a nearby pool in the River Spey ? is capable of producing up to 10 million litres of spirit a year. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon performed the opening cere...