Widely available Recommended For the details… Although Craigellachie was built in 1890–relatively recently, given that many of its Speyside peers date back another 40-60 years before that–it is widely considered to produce an “old style” Speyside malt, with a heavier, more sulphurous character thanks to the use of worm tubs. Oddly enough, like many of …
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Holyrood Arrival
Specialty retail, maybe. Recommended For the details… One of the surprising things about the Scotch whisky industry is that, until quite recently, neither of Scotland’s two major cities had a malt distillery. With the recent boom in the industry, all that has changed, of course, but Holyrood, founded in 2019, was the first distillery to …
Bunnahabhain 12
Widespread. Any decent liquor store should carry it. Highly recommended For the details… Bunnahabhain was built in 1881 by William Robertson in partnership with the Greenlees Bros. From its inception, the distillery included housing for workers and a custom-built road and pier. In 1887 it merged with Glenrothes on Speyside, forming Highland Distillers, which eventually …
Buffalo Trace
Availability…It is, but it isn’t! Highly recommended For the details… I am, unabashedly, a single malt Scotch drinker first and foremost and a more general whisky/whiskey drinker only secondarily. I started drinking single malts in my late teens, and only came to other types of whisky/whiskey a little later, when I was in my early …
Ardmore Legacy
You can find it if you want it But do you want it? For the details… Ardmore, located near the town of Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire, is one of the relatively few Highland distilleries still operating in the zone of the Highlands lying east of Speyside. It was founded in 1898 by Adam Teacher, of the Glasgow-based …
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