Tullibardine 225 Sauternes Finish
43% ABV · Single malt
Scotland · Highland
Tullibardine combines mineral-rich Ochil Hills water with a straightforward four-pot-still Highland production setup and on-site control from distillation through maturation and bottling.
House character
Tullibardine combines mineral-rich Ochil Hills water with a straightforward four-pot-still Highland production setup and on-site control from distillation through maturation and bottling. Its stainless-steel fermentation regime is comparatively conventional, placing greater emphasis on clean spirit production and subsequent wood management. The extensive on-site warehousing and cooperage give the distillery unusually direct control over cask handling after distillation.
Cask 23 on this distillery
Tullibardine is a particularly self-contained Highland operation: almost every stage after malting happens on the Blackford site. Danny Burn water feeds a four-still plant, while casks are matured, maintained and eventually bottled within the same distillery complex. That makes wood management and on-site control central to understanding the Tullibardine style.
Production
Tullibardine uses water from the Danny Burn, fed by mineral-rich springs in the Ochil Hills.
The current official site states the distillery has 10 washbacks; established specialist sources describe stainless-steel washbacks and a minimum fermentation of roughly 52 hours.
Four copper pot stills are operated on site: two wash stills and two spirit stills. Established specialist sources report wash-still capacities around 21,500 litres and spirit-still capacities around 16,200 litres.
Maturation is managed on site with warehousing capacity for around 20,000 casks; the distillery also operates its own cooperage and bottling plant.
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43% ABV · Single malt