Landscape photograph of Tullibardine distillery.

Distillery · Rank 61

Tullibardine

Tullibardine produces a soft Highland malt with creamy cereal, orchard fruit, and a range of wine-cask finishes.

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Common information

At a glance.

Region: Highlands
Location: Blackford, Perthshire (opens in a new tab)
Date opened: 1949
Volume: 3m LPA
Distillery Master: Not publicly identified
Collection records: 1 record
Production rank: 61 of 141 by listed capacity

Production

Distinct house style

Tullibardine produces a soft Highland malt with creamy cereal, orchard fruit, and a range of wine-cask finishes.

Water from the Ochil Hills, copper pot distillation and on-site maturation underpin a creamy Highland make frequently explored through wine-cask finishes.

Process

The useful details are physical.

Still shape, fermentation, condensation, peat policy and cask selection are treated here as production choices—not as guarantees that every release will taste identical.

House style

Character before marketing.

The distillery character describes the underlying make. Age, batch and cask history can move an individual bottling well beyond that starting point.

History

From its beginnings

Architect William Delmé-Evans converted a former brewery site into Tullibardine in 1949, drawing on the same Ochil Hills water source.

Tullibardine remains an operating Scotch whisky distillery at Blackford, Perthshire. Its present identity joins the accumulated fabric of the site to an active production tradition, while discontinued bottlings belong to the range history rather than defining the distillery today.

1949

Foundation

The working chronology begins in 1949; later closures, rebuilding or ownership changes are part of the individual history rather than a reason to reset that founding date.

Present day

Continuity is not stasis.

Equipment, capacity and ranges evolve. The identity of the distillery is carried by its site, production knowledge and maturing stock rather than by one frozen historic specification.

Identity

The character

Tullibardine belongs to the Highlands, but region is only a map reference. Its more informative identity comes from the production decisions above and from the way its spirit responds to maturation.

This distinction matters when reading a bottle: the distillery name identifies the origin of the spirit, while the expression, age, cask recipe and bottling strength describe the particular release.

Place

Blackford, Perthshire

Blackford, Perthshire is the operating location recorded for Tullibardine; the map link above opens the site independently of any visitor-centre branding.

Region

the Highlands

The regional label is retained for navigation and comparison, not presented as a complete prediction of flavour.

Distillery details

Important facts

A distillery is best understood through its permanent site story, working methods and maturing stock rather than through an old award list or one discontinued expression. The range plate below records a particular moment in that longer life.

Distinctive record

One detail worth retaining.

William Delmé-Evans developed the distillery on a former brewery site in 1949. The location shares the Ochil Hills water story also associated with Blackford's bottling industry.

Production signature

A repeatable house method.

Water from the Ochil Hills, copper pot distillation and on-site maturation underpin a creamy Highland make frequently explored through wine-cask finishes.

Range context

A changing family of expressions.

The final image may include past expressions. It is a visual archive of the whisky family, not a promise that every bottle remains in the current range.

Whisky range

A group of Tullibardine whisky expressions from the editorial archive.

Scotch Whisky Collection

1 record.

Collection photograph filed under the owner-supplied working label “Tullibardine 225”; bottle facts await review.

Highlands

Tullibardine 225

Tullibardine

Age not specified