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Of Dufftown's seven malt distilleries
only one appropriates Dufftown as its name
and in past manifestations confusingly tagged on the word Glenlivet. In fact
Dufftown is some distance from the glen of the Livet, and has no need anyway
for such devices. Speyside distilleries used to believe that a murmured
reference to Glenlivet added a cachet but these allusions are gradually
vanishing. The Dufftown distillery and its next-door neighbour
Pittyvaich were both owned by Bells until that company
was acquired by what is now United Distillers. Dufftown's stone-built premises
were originally a meal mill, in 1896 but they have since sprouted a pagoda,
and were twice expanded in the 1970s.
© Michael Jackson 1994
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