Constructed in Speyside in 1974 and closed in 1993, Pittyvaich was one of Scotland's shortest-lived whisky distilleries of recent times. The distillery was simultaneously a product and a casualty of the economic turbulence that caused the mass expansion and then the inevitable crash of the whisky industry throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Pittyvaich's whisky can still occasionally be found and is often a fine dram. This is an odd and strangely comforting fact, especially given that it was designed solely to mass produce Speyside malt for the Bell's blended whisky. Constructed and produced with modernity and mass production in mind, it is something of a miracle that Pittyvaich managed to harbour much character at all, let alone some of the truly distinctive traits it often displays. It is often very grassy, drying, minerally, oily and salty with further notes of butter, herbs, meat and flowers.