This bottling of a 14-year-old Cragganmore single malt was produced by independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail as part of their Connoisseurs Choice series, here with the brown label that was standard between 1980 and 1988. The whisky was distilled in 1972.
Founded in 1869 by John Smith on the south bank of the Spey and at the foot of the Craggan More Hills, its name means big rock. The very pure spring water used comes from the nearby Craggan Burn stream. An unpeated, very complex malt is produced.
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 14-year-old Cragganmore single malt was produced by independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail as part of their Connoisseurs Choice series, here with the brown label that was standard between 1980 and 1988. The whisky was distilled in 1972.
Founded in 1869 by John Smith on the south bank of the Spey and at the foot of the Craggan More Hills, its name means big rock. The very pure spring water used comes from the nearby Craggan Burn stream. An unpeated, very complex malt is produced.
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.
