• Kilchoman The Kilchoman distillery (pronounced Kil-ho-man) is a distillery that produces single malt Scotch whisky on Islay, an island of the Inner Hebrides. The distillery is situated on the western side of Islay, near the small settlement of Kilchoman. The location made it the most westerly distillery in Scotland, until the Abhainn Dearg Distillery started […]

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  • Dailuaine 4 Year Old 2012 (bottled 2017) Morrison & MacKay Whisky is the home of such liqueurs as Columba Cream, Bruadar, Ginger Tam’s and our new Fruit Liqueur Range. We are also home to the Carn Mor whisky collection. Càrn Mòr bottler has several hundred bottlings that I found on the Whiskybase website. The Càrn Mòr Strictly […]

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  • Crabbie Crabbie’s traces its founding to 1801 when Miller Crabbie was a merchant in Edinburgh. The business was inherited by his son John Crabbie (1806 – 1891) who went on to found John Crabbie & Co. In the mid-19th century, John Crabbie acquired a former porter brewery located between Yardheads and Great Junction Street in […]

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  • Fettercairn The Fettercairn whisky distillery is located near the River Esk in the Eastern Highlands. At the foothills of the Cairngorm Mountains, Fettercairn sits in Fettercairn. There are no other Scotch distilleries nearby. Fettercairn distillery was founded in 1824 by Sir Alexander Ramsay, who licensed it a year later. In 1830, Sir Alexander sold the […]

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  • Tamdhu Tamdhu distillery is a single malt Scotch Speyside whisky distillery, located in the town of Knockando in Banffshire, Scotland. Tamdhu comes from Gaelic for little dark hill. In 1863 the Strathspey railway connected this locality to other areas. The distillery was founded in 1896 by a group of whisky blenders, wishing to engage in […]

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  • 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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