Tullibardine

Tullibardine distillery is situated on the site of an old brewery, where the production of alcohol dates back as far as 1488, when it produced a special ale for the coronation of King James IV at Scone Palace.

The brewery has turned it hand to distilling a few times in the last two hundred years or so and after some years of silence as both a brewery and a distillery, the site was bought by, and redesigned by William Delme-Evans in 1949, also the architect of Jura and Glenallachie distilleries.

He was the partner of a retired Excise officer setting up the venture, but it proved too much of a financial drain and in 1953 it was sold on. The distillery was rebuilt in 1974 and mothballed in 1994. It opened once again after it was purchased in 2003 by a business consortium and is the heart of a retail complex and tourist attraction.