This bottling of a blend of only Speyside malts was produced by the independent bottler Douglas Laing under the name Scallywag as a Chocolate Edition. The whisky matured in ex-Pedro Ximenez and ex-Oloroso sherry casks and was bottled in 4200 bottles in 2023.
Scallywag is a brand of Douglas Laing & Co. Ltd. from Glasgow. The name means something like: Little Rascal, for the label the Fox Terrier of the Douglas Laing family was the model. Among the company's blends, Scallywag embodies the Speyside region and single malts from Mortlach, Glenrothes and Macallan are used.
The Speyside lies in the north-east of the Highlands and is considered the centre of Scotland's whisky production. Around the towns of Elgin, Rothes, Keith and Dufftown there are more distilleries than anywhere else in Scotland, including big names such as Glenfarclas, Glenlivet, Macallan and many more.
Elegance and complexity are often cited as characteristic features of Speyside malts, but the variety of whiskies produced here is too great to speak of a single style.
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 blend of only Speyside malts was produced by the independent bottler Douglas Laing under the name Scallywag as a Chocolate Edition. The whisky matured in ex-Pedro Ximenez and ex-Oloroso sherry casks and was bottled in 4200 bottles in 2023.
Scallywag is a brand of Douglas Laing & Co. Ltd. from Glasgow. The name means something like: Little Rascal, for the label the Fox Terrier of the Douglas Laing family was the model. Among the company's blends, Scallywag embodies the Speyside region and single malts from Mortlach, Glenrothes and Macallan are used.
The Speyside lies in the north-east of the Highlands and is considered the centre of Scotland's whisky production. Around the towns of Elgin, Rothes, Keith and Dufftown there are more distilleries than anywhere else in Scotland, including big names such as Glenfarclas, Glenlivet, Macallan and many more.
Elegance and complexity are often cited as characteristic features of Speyside malts, but the variety of whiskies produced here is too great to speak of a single style.
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.
