Tomintoul is a relatively modern distillery in terms of the whisky industry in Scotland, having been founded in 1964 and undergone a succession of ownership changes in the intervening years.

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The distillery has been owned by independent bottler Angus Dundee since 2000 and the company has been credited with increasing the profile of the distillery through the advent and sale of a number of single malts of both the unpeated and peated varieties.