This bottling of a Dalmore single malt, released as an ‘Original Distillery Bottling’, was produced as ‘Cromartie – Lands of the MacKenzie’, paying homage to the ancestral home of the MacKenzie clan. The whisky was distilled in 1996, matured in American white oak casks, finished in ex-Oloroso sherry casks, and bottled in 2011 in a run of 7,500 individually numbered bottles.
Dalmore is a distillery near Alness, Highland, Scotland, which was founded in 1839 by Alexander Matheson. From 1867, members of the Mackenzie clan ran the distillery. A member of the clan saved King Alexander III from a stag, and since then the twelve-pointer has appeared on the coat of arms and also on Dalmore's bottles. During the First World War, the Royal Navy produced mines on site, in the 1960s the distillery merged with Whyte & Mackay Ltd. and today it belongs to the Philippine Emperador Inc.
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 Dalmore single malt, released as an ‘Original Distillery Bottling’, was produced as ‘Cromartie – Lands of the MacKenzie’, paying homage to the ancestral home of the MacKenzie clan. The whisky was distilled in 1996, matured in American white oak casks, finished in ex-Oloroso sherry casks, and bottled in 2011 in a run of 7,500 individually numbered bottles.
Dalmore is a distillery near Alness, Highland, Scotland, which was founded in 1839 by Alexander Matheson. From 1867, members of the Mackenzie clan ran the distillery. A member of the clan saved King Alexander III from a stag, and since then the twelve-pointer has appeared on the coat of arms and also on Dalmore's bottles. During the First World War, the Royal Navy produced mines on site, in the 1960s the distillery merged with Whyte & Mackay Ltd. and today it belongs to the Philippine Emperador Inc.
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.
