(NOTE: FOUNDERS ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
Scotch Whisky Founders
West Speyside Region
The West Speyside Region includes Speyside Scotch distilleries and founders West of the River Spey.
Below are links to Whisky Founders that have made huge contributions to the growth of the Western portion of the Speyside Region as well as the Scotch Whisky Industry in general. These may have been historical figures that lived long ago before prohibition or may be living leaders that have advanced the cause of the industry as a whole.
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Robert Bain
Miltonduff
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Peter Brown
Linkwood
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Graham Coull
Glen Moray
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Helen Cumming
Cardhu
Helen Cumming abruptly switched the scene from distilling whisky to domestic work with breathtaking speed: hiding equipment and replacing it with bread-making materials, dusting herself with flour, and greeting the excise (tax) officers as if they had arrived at the most ordinary moment in a working family’s kitchen.
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Keith Cruickshank
Benromach
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Elizabeth Cumming
Cardhu
Elizabeth Cumming secured tenure over adjoining land and set about constructing a new distillery designed to modernize and increase capacity dramatically. The change was not cosmetic; the point was output. Under Elizabeth’s direction, capacity was later reported as having tripled. .
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John Duff
Benriach
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John Hopkins
Speyburn
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Dennis Malcolm
Glen Grant Distillery
Dennis Malcolm’s early education followed the standard local path, but formal schooling did not hold his interest for long. Woodworking appealed to him, and this inclination shaped his first decisive step into whisky. At the age of fifteen, he entered the Glen Grant distillery as an apprentice cooper.
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Kirstie McCallum
Glen Moray
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Nick Morgan
Roseisle
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William Paul
Glen Burgie
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Willie Phillips
The Macallan
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John Robertson
Roseisle
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William Simpson
Glen Elgin
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In 1869, John Smith made the move that fixed his name to a place. He secured land leased from Sir George Grant and built a distillery beside the Craggan Burn, close to the River Spey and near the Strathspey railway line. The decision was strategic: water, power, and transport were the essentials.
John Smith
Cragganmore
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James Stuart
Glenrothes
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John Thompson
Knockando
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