Wild Turkey had its roots in 1891, when Thomas Ripy founded the Old Hickory Distillery in Kentucky. However, Bourbon’s name was born during World War II, when a wholesaler on a hunting trip fell in love with this Old Hickory distillate. It was named Wild Turkey and the wholesaler began manufacturing…
Scottish Leader is a fairly young player in the whiskey world, the brand was founded in 1976. It is produced by Burn Stewart Distillers, which is now owned by South African Distell, Africa’s largest alcohol producer. The company also owns few other Scottish distilleries; Bunnahabhain, Deanston and Ledaig. According to Scottish…
Teacher’s Highland Cream is produced in Glasgow and is owned by Beam Suntory. The whiskey brand was registered in 1884 and was founded by William Teacher. The year 1830 in the bottle comes from when William began selling whiskey at his wife’s grocery store. As with the history of so many…
Arthur Bell established a grocery store in 1825 (this year is found on all Bell’s bottles) and began to make blends on different malt whiskies in 1851. First whisky Extra Special was registered in 1895 and ten years later there was added Bell’s name on it. After the prohibition which created…
Barclays Extra Special is produced in Glasgow by Campbell Meyer & Company. They also have other, rather unknown, blended scotch brands, like McIvor, Highland Chief and Bonnie & Clyde. Due to producer Barclays is their most sold product. Barclays dated back to 1903 when it was established by Jimmy Barclay. It…
Whyte & Mackay comes from Glasgow, it was established in 1844 by James Whyte and Charles Mackay. Whyte & Mackay main market is the UK where it has a firm 3% market share. In the whole world it is 26th most sold Scotch Whisky. The company has been sold many times,…
J.P Wiser’s is the oldest continuously working Canadian whisky brand, established in 1857. It is produced by Hiram Walker Distillery. This 10 years old triple barrel import version is on sale only in Europe. It’s a blend of corn whiskey and rye whiskey (10%), matured in ex-Bourbon, Canadian rye and new…
Sir Edward’s is a trademark of Bardinet, a French company. Bardinet’s parent company La Martiniquaise bought Glen Moray distillery in 2008 (seller was Glenmorangie). There mostly comes the malt whiskey for Sir Edward’s blended scotch. Likely this is the birth year of the label, even though there is a year 1891…
William Peel is a trademark owned by French company Marie Brizard (part of Belvedere Group). It is a very popular whisky in France. It raises it to the most sold scotch whiskies since France is a very big importer of Scotch Whisky. William Peel is blended from 18 different Highland and…
High Commissioner is produced by Loch Lomond distillery. Loch Lomond was established in 1966 and it has produced plenty of different whiskies with different taste profiles. Loch Lomond was sold to Inver House in 1984 and after that have changed the owner many times. In 2014 it was bought by a…