Water of Life - Aberlour Traditional Cache
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If there was any illicit whisky-making activity at this spot in the early years of the 19th century, the smugglers eventually had to make themselves scarce because in 1812 the local laird located the new village of Charlestown of Aberlour around it. Smooth stones taken from the bed of the Spey were among the building materials used for some of the houses. Aberlour had a famous orphanage, built in 1882 by the Littler family who were local benefactors. The tower next to the high school is all that remains of the buildings.
Aberlour distillery was built in 1826, just 14 years after work on the little town itself began. The distillery has thrived although it has burned down twice, on one occasion the entire town population rising from their beds to roll the barrels of whisky out of danger.
Distillers, like philanthropists, have the power to see things done in their communities. After a great storm in the 1840s, the town church clock stopped and with it the villagers’ timekeeping. Bread was not baked on time, shops opened late, farm-workers lost the early hours and so on. When the Aberlour manager offered a cask of his whisky to anyone who could repair the clock, it was back in service within days.
Water was initially taken from a well in the grounds used over a thousand years ago for early Christian baptisms by Dunstan, the Pictish saint, who was eventually to become Archbishop of Canterbury. It is now bypassed and spring-water from Ben Rinnes is used.
The distillery, situated at the end of the wide main street, lies on the Lour Burn just 300 metres from where it joins the Spey. There are few vestiges of the Victorian rebuilding but the tree-shaded gate and lodge house at the entrance are attractive. Until recently a sawmill cooperative made use of one of the distillery buildings. There are two pairs of stills dating from 1973.
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