Tomatin Spey District Distillery Co Ltd was founded in 1897 by local business men just outside the village bearing the same name. Situated a couple of miles south of Inverness, Tomatin means ”hill of the juniper bush”. The hill have a long tradition of distilling, illicit or otherwise, that goes back to the 15th century when drovers moved their cattle to market over the high mountain passes and stopped to fill up their whisky flasks. The contrast from these days are striking when you visit Tomatins stillroom with 23 stills standing, some silently; only 12 are in production today. 12 million litres a year was produced for the blending industry in the 1970s. Lately Tomatin have focused more on their own malts and blends and in 1996 the ‘Antiquary’ blend joined the Tomatin portfolio.

Tomatin was the first distillery in Scotland to be acquired by Japanese shareholders in 1986, a new era of whisky distilling in the Monadhliath Mountains began.