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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Mostly gone Recommended, if you can find it for a halfway reasonable price For the details… Rosebank's fate has historically been closely linked to the Forth and Clyde Canal, which linked Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth in the east with Glasgow and the Firth of Clyde in the west. The canal was built in …
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 …
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Fairly widely available Recommended For the details… Glenglassaugh, located along a relatively distillery-sparse section of Scotland’s east coast near the town of Portsoy. Never a major distilling area, Glenglassaugh is one of a handful still in operation there. It was built in 1874 by a local businessman, James Moir. That Glenglassaugh is still in operation …
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