• Dailuaine In 1852, William Mackenzie founded Dailuaine Distillery. Dailuaine derives from the Scottish Gaelic “An dail uaine” for green valley. Dailuaine Distillery is located in Spey valley. After William’s death in 1865, William Mackenzie’s wife leased the distillery to a banker from Aberlour called James Fleming, who, with William’s son, formed Mackenzie and Company in […]

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  • Dewar’s Dewar’s is a brand of blended Scotch whisky owned by Bacardi, which claims the brand’s “White Label” to be the top-selling blended Scotch in the US. Dewar’s is also the world’s most awarded blended Scotch whisky with more than 500 medals earned in international competitions. Dewar’s History The Dewar’s whisky brand was created by […]

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  • Caol Ila Distillery The Caol Ila Distillery was born in 1846 on the shore of the Sound of Islay. It was taken over by Norman Buchanan, the owner of Jura Distillery, in 1854. In 1863, the distillery again changed hands with Bulloch Lade & Company. By the 1880s over 147,000 gallons of whisky were produced […]

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  • Sutcliffe and Sons Sutcliffe & Son are a craft distiller. Don Sutcliffe has been Managing Director of Craft Distillers since 2004. Don works with Willie Phillips and Master Blender Bill Arthur in Scotland. The Exceptional small batch scotch whisky was developed in three stages by Sutcliffe & Son. The first was a blended grain whisky […]

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  • The Blended Whisky Company The Blended Whisky Company shows that a blend of whisky can be better than the individual whiskies that are a part of the whole product. The Blended Whisky Company takes batches of whisky from distilleries that are now closed and merges them into even better blended whiskies. Several times now The […]

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