It is co-located with the headquarters of the company and its Highland Village Tourist attraction beside the River Spey.
The distillery was sited high up on Mannoch Hill, above the River Spey due to the peat softening the water.
With the sea and port of Garmouth nearby, the River Spey at its feet and barley-growing plains nearby, all the basic ingredients of malt whisky were close at hand.
River Spey, Scotland, important for the scotch whisky distilleries along its banks
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It was named after the village of Craigellachie on the River Spey in Moray, Scotland, the ancestral home of Sir George Stephen, the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR).
Spey casting, a fly fishing technique developed on the River Spey
Strathspey, Scotland, the famous whisky producing region by the River Spey