# Tamdhu: The scotch whisky taking on Macallan

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/tamdhu-the-scotch-whisky-taking-on-macallan/
- Published: 2026-11-09T08:27:14+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-09T09:49:28+00:00
- Original publisher: City AM (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.cityam.com/tamdhu-the-scotch-whisky-taking-on-macallan/
- Topics: Business

## Key points

- Tamdhu says all its single malt is matured in sherry casks.
- The policy gives it a point of difference from many Scotch whiskies.
- The Speyside distillery restarted in 2012 under new ownership.

## Summary

Tamdhu is positioning itself as a distinctive Speyside single malt by maturing all its whisky in sherry casks, a practice its owners say sets it apart in a market where “sherry” often describes only a short finishing period. The approach also reconnects the distillery with its historical use of sherry casks and gives it a clear identity as it competes with better-known names such as Macallan.

The distillery was mothballed in 2010, sold to Ian Macleod Distillers in 2011 and restarted in 2012. Its new owners found stocks that were mostly matured in Bourbon casks, but decided future Tamdhu single malt should be entirely sherry-matured after tasting the difference. Tamdhu dates to the late nineteenth-century Speyside boom and once mainly supplied malt for blends; its capacity was expanded to 4 million litres of pure alcohol in the 1970s.

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