Scotland, Speyside. Distillery operational. Owner: Pernod Ricard

The first distillery built in the 20th century (1958-1960), Tormore quickly made a name for itself for both its architecture (the distillery's buildings are listed) and its malt born under the shadow of sherry casks, the Tormore 10 Year Old The Pure Highland Malt (80s) and the Tormore 10 Year Old Speyside Malt Scotch Whisky (70s).Nevertheless, it was a distillery designed primarily to produce malt for the blends of its various owners (Long John Distillers, Allied Domecq) known under the names Long John, Ballantine's and Stewart's Cream. Bought by Pernod Ricard in 2005, it would not be until 2014 that bottlings in its own name would really begin to appear, in the form of small batch limited editions aged for 14-16 years in American oak casks.

A Tormore 5 year old from the 1980s imported to Italy by Stock. At the time, Tormore was primarily used in the distillery owner’’s blend, Long John. At the end of this decade, Allied Distillers bought Tormore and it became a key component in Ballantine’’s. This 5 year old is from the era in which Italy enjoyed young, light whiskies like those imported by Armando Giovinetto. Similar examples include the many Glen Grant bottlings, also aged 5 years and distilled in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Nonetheless, a Tormore 10 year old also existed at the same time with the same bottle shape.