The Speyside Cooperage is a cooperage

Cooper (profession)

Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden staved vessels of a conical form, of greater length than breadth, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads...

 located in Craigellachie

Craigellachie

Craigellachie may refer to:* Craigellachie, British Columbia, Canada* Craigellachie, Moray, Scotland* Craigellachie, New Zealand* Craigellachie, a National Nature Reserve near Aviemore, Scotland* Craigellachie Bridge* Craigellachie Whisky...

, Aberlour

Aberlour

Aberlour , is the name of a place in Moray, Scotland, 12 miles south of Elgin on the road to Grantown. A burn , a tributary of the River Spey, and surrounding parish, are both named Aberlour, but the name is most commonly used in reference to the village which straddles the stream and flanks the...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. Its visitor centre, the only such in Britain, is part of the Malt Whisky Trail

Scotland's Malt Whisky Trail

Speyside is home to over half of Scotland's Malt Whisky distilleries, not all of which are open to the public. The Malt Whisky Trail is a local marketing initiative established to promote the region's Whisky heritage and encourage tourism....

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Each year, it produces and repairs nearly 150,000 oak casks used by the surrounding Speyside Whisky

Speyside Single Malts

Speyside single malts are single malt Scotch whiskies, distilled in Strathspey, the area around the River Spey in Moray and Badenoch and Strathspey, in northeastern Scotland....

distilleries, as well as distilleries elsewhere throughout Scotland.

Owned by the Taylor family since its founding in 1947, the cooperage was sold in 2008 to the French firm Tonnellerie François Frères.

External links

• http://www.speysidecooperage.co.uk/
• 360° Panorama of Speyside Cooperage