Per The Herald, Gordon & MacPhail, one of Scotland's oldest independent bottlers, has announced recently that, starting in 2024, it will no longer fill casks from distilleries it does not own. The firm has been in the whisky brokering business for most of its existence, and has been bottling single malts from distilleries both widely …
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If you're well-versed in the history of single malts, you're probably well aware that the Scotch whisky industry has had a boom-to-bust cycle over the years. One of the worst busts in recent history was the "whisky loch" of the early to mid-1980s (so-called because there was enough surplus whisky to "fill a loch"). With …
I no sooner post a review (claiming a bottling is current) than the whisky in question is discontinued and its parent company announces a revamped range. So it is with Glenglassaugh, one of the trio of Scottish distilleries owned by Jack Daniels and Woodford parent firm Brown-Forman. The new range consists of a 12 year …
Orkney is apparently getting a third distillery. The archipelago, which lies across the Pentland Firth off the north coast of Scotland, is already home to Highland Park and Scapa, both of them on the main island. Until the advent of Torabhaig on Skye, Mainland Orkney had been the sole Scottish island outside Islay to have …
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