Day 13 its here where I like to congratulate you on your making it to halfway through the calendar. If you are here on the 13th of December then you really have done well but if you are here later that is fine too. Because today is the big middle bottle normally Macallan is one of the more meh distilleries but they are big so they need to be doing something right. I think today we can safely say that this is probably the reason why. Bottled by AD Rattray it is a fine dram.
HISTORY
Andrew Dewar Rattray set up in business in Glasgow during 1868, trading as an importer of French wines, Italian spirits and olive oil, as well as blending and retailing Scotch whisky. Ultimately the firm was sold to the whisky broker William Walker, but was brought back into family ownership by Tim Morrison, who created the ‘new’ Stronachie in 2002. Back in the late 1800s A Dewar Rattray had acted as agent for Stronachie distillery, so there was already a historic connection.
Morrison also established the Cask Collection label for single cask bottlings, and in 2011 the peated blended malt Cask Islay was released, being transformed into a single malt two years later. 2012 saw the release of a five-year-old blend named Bank Note, a year after the Whisky Experience and Shop opened in Kirkoswald. Plans for the new Glasgow distillery were approved during 2014.
Tasting Notes
Nose: bourbon, grass
Taste: doughnuts, pear, chocolate
FInish: Grand Marnier
Purchase Links
Can be purchased from Strath
Can be purchased from Jak’s Liquor