This bottling of a Whyte and Mackey blend without an age statement received a double maturation, unusual for a blend: the malt as well as the grain whiskies each received a vatting in ex-sherry casks, only then were they blended and then aged a further time in oak casks.
Whyte & Mackay is a Scottish company founded in 1882 by Charles Mackay and James Whyte. It deals in spirits, mainly whisky of the same brand. The year 1844 on the bottles refers to Allan & Poytner, where Charles Mackay worked for many years.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
This bottling of a Whyte and Mackey blend without an age statement received a double maturation, unusual for a blend: the malt as well as the grain whiskies each received a vatting in ex-sherry casks, only then were they blended and then aged a further time in oak casks.
Whyte & Mackay is a Scottish company founded in 1882 by Charles Mackay and James Whyte. It deals in spirits, mainly whisky of the same brand. The year 1844 on the bottles refers to Allan & Poytner, where Charles Mackay worked for many years.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
