{{Short description|Cooperage located in Craigellachie, Scotland}} thumb|right|250px|Speyside Cooperage The '''Speyside Cooperage''' is a cooperage located in Craigellachie, Aberlour, Scotland. Its visitor centre, the only such in Britain, is part of the Malt Whisky Trail, started in the early 1980s.<ref name="Smith">{{cite web | last = Smith | first = Gavin | title = Speyside Cooperage | publisher = The Scottish Malt Whisky Society | date = 1 November 1998 | url = http://www.smws.co.uk/your-society-adventure/article-archive/article.html?article=82 | accessdate = 4 January 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = MacDonald | first = Ian | title = Fish tales and the Whisky Trail | work = BBC | date = 29 April 2005 | url = https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4499187.stm | access-date = 4 January 2009}}</ref>
Each year, it produces and repairs nearly 150,000 oak casks used by the surrounding Speyside Whisky distilleries, as well as distilleries elsewhere throughout Scotland.<ref name="Smith"/>
Owned by the Taylor family since its founding in 1947, the cooperage was sold in 2008 to the French firm Tonnellerie François Frères.<ref>{{cite news | last = Bradley | first = Jane | title = French buy Speyside Cooperage | work = The Scotsman | date = 4 April 2008 | url = http://business.scotsman.com/business/French--buy-Speyside-Cooperage.3947677.jp | accessdate = 4 January 2009}}</ref>
thumb|Barrel storage in the open According to a 2012 BBC article, visitors to the cooperage can view the making of a cask from start to completion, employing "traditional methods and tools for creating exceptional casks from American oak, many of which are sent around the world".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20120417-exploring-scotlands-historic-whisky-trail|title=Exploring Scotland's historic whisky trail|first=Celia|last=Shatzman|website=www.bbc.com}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{official|http://www.speysidecooperage.co.uk/}}
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Category:Scottish malt whisky Category:Companies based in Moray Category:Food and drink companies established in 1947 Category:1947 establishments in Scotland Category:British companies established in 1947
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