Dalmore

Dalmore distillery was built in 1839 by Alexander Matheson, who immediately leased it to the Sunderland family, who ran it for over thirty years until 1869, when the lease was taken over by three Mackenzie brothers, Alexander, Charles and Andrew. The number of stills was doubled from two to four in 1874 and following Alexander Matheson's death the distillery was sold to the Mackenzies in 1891. Since 1960 the Dalmore is owned by  Whyte & Mackay.

Since then Dalmore were putting out some of the finest malt whisky ever to come out of the Highlands, thanks in large part to the abundant talents of one of the most well-respected ambassadors the whisky industry has: Whyte & Mackay's master blender, the irrepressible Richard Paterson. Indeed, shortly after the JBB/Kyndal management buyout Paterson's most famous creation, The Dalmore 62 year old, broke the world record at auction for a single bottle of whisky: nearly ?26 000. Another bottle sold to a private individual exceeded even that extraordinary figure a few years later in 2005.