date:Apr 07, 2013
If the distillery gets planning permission, it will cost about 50m to build and will be able to produce around 13m litres of spirt each year from 16 copper stills.
Situated beside the company's existing distillery in Teaninich near Alness in Speyside, the planned site would create up to 20 new jobs.
Plans for the Speyside site are part of a multi-million investment programme launched by Diageo last year.
In June 2012, Diageo unveiled plans to pour more than 1bn into boosting Scotch whisky pro