Water of Life - Tormore Traditional Cache
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The latest in the series.Please bring your own pen/pencil.
Cache is large enough for coins and small travelbugs.
When it was completed in 1960, Tormore was the first new distillery in Scotland in the 20th Century.It created a whole new community with its clutch of pretty tied cottages laid out behind.Even now I think it is one of the nicest looking distilleries I've seen.
The architect was Sir Albert Richardson, a past president of the Royal Academy, who succeeded in creating a main building that was different from the classic Highland distillery but which equally avoided the visual curse of the concrete and glass boxes to which remodelled distilleries were starting to be reduced. Sir Albert included a small curling pond in the layout and he tried to mask the mandatory tall chimney by rendering it as a giant whisky bottle, but there were problems in constructing it and the idea was abandoned.
There are four pairs of stills, each with a purifier to lighten the spirit. The malt used to make Tormore is lightly peated and the whisky is matured principally in ex-Bourbon casks.
A time-capsule in the shape of a pot-still was buried in the forecourt of the distillery, the intention being to open it in the year 2060. It contains assorted data about whisky and Scotland for future industrial archaeologists including a history of the clans, the names of the Tormore staff in 1960 and samples of barley, local water, peat and cask staves. The excavators should have some glasses handy too since there is a tregnum of Long John, the owners’ blended whisky brand, for them to sample.
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