Canadian Special Old is made by Hiram Walker & Sons, established in 1858 by Hiram Walker. The company is now owned by French alcohol gigant Pernod Ricard. This whisky is probably the most common Canadian whisky in supermarket shells in Estonia and other Baltic States. It’s also very cheap, a 70cl bottle…
Bartender’s Club is a private label product of Rimi Baltic, owned by Swedish company ICA. Rimi headquarters is in Riga and the products are on sale in every Baltic state. There is not any info available about this whisky, just that it's produced in Scotland and bottled in Estonia. Matured 3…
The production of Maker’s Mark started in 1954 at premises, which previously belonged to Burks Distillery. It was bought by William Samuels, the founder of the company. The first bottling came out in 1958 and already has the dipped red wax over the cap, which since has been the trademark of…
Jim Beam Black was launched in 1978. It was originally called Double Aged, which means double the maturation age of original Jim Beam, so 8 years. Later it’s name changed to Triple Aged, which means three times the time, which is needed for straight bourbon, so 6 years. Anyway, Triple Aged…
MacArthur blended Scotch trademark was developed by J. MacArthur & Co, established in 1877. Trademark disappeared from the market until it was bought by Inver House Distillers. Nowadays it is owned by International Beverage Holdings, who also own Old Pulteney, AnCnoc and Speyburn distilleries and Hankey Bannister blended scotch trademark. MacArthurs…
Johnnie Walker is one of the most iconic alcohol brands in the world, owned by Diageo. The trademark was established by John Walker in 1820. His children continued the business and the company has grown steadily to become one of the most important Scotch whisky brands in the world today. At…
Grant’s is well known blended Scotch whisky and it’s among the top 3 most sold whiskies in the world. It’s produced by William Grant & Sons, a family company from the Speyside area. The sales volume is 155.000 bottles per day. Grant’s was established by William Grant, who built Glenfiddich distillery…
Clan Murray is made by Benriach Distillery. It looks Benriach is not so proud of this product, as there is not any mention of this whisky on their website or anywhere else on the internet. I found it on sale at Baltic states and a few other countries like Holland and…
Ballantine’s is one of the third most sold Scotch whiskies, among Johnnie Walker Red Label and Grant’s Family Reserve. It’s available on every store and mostly also on different bottle sizes. Ballantine’s is worldwide 2nd most sold whisky but in Europe it’s the first. The Sales volume is enormous, 200.000 bottles…
Ewan Williams Bourbon is produced by Heaven Hill on their Bernheim distillery at Louisville, Kentucky. It’s most sold product of Heaven Hill and secondly most sold bourbon whiskey after Jim Beam. On the world it’s 7th most sold whisk(e)y. Story tells that Welsh Ewan Williams was the first who start whiskey…