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In 2007 Talisker 18-year-old won "Best Single Malt In The World 2007" at the World Whiskies Awards. [11] and in 2015 Talisker 10 Year Old won a Double Gold Medal and "Best Single Malt Scotch up to 12 years" in the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Talisker was the favourite whisky of writers Robert Louis Stevenson and HV Morton.
Preshal More overlooks Talisker from the south. In 1820 Donald Macleod, 6th of Talisker, a major in the 56th Regiment, sold his interest in Talisker and emigrated to Van Diemen’s Land (financed by his father-in-law, Alexander Maclean of Coll). He travelled with 36 Highlanders of his connection and secured a grant of 2,000 acres (800 hectares ...
The region of West Highland was created to separate between Oban and Dalwhinnie. Talisker is the only distillery on the Isle of Skye, which has never been a whisky region unto itself, [6] but would be in the Island subregion; though this categorisation enabled UDV to include both Talisker and Lagavulin, strongly flavoured malts with strong ...
Distillery Location Year closed Caledonian: Haymarket: 1988, demolished Cambus: Tullibody: 1993, converted into a whisky warehouse facility and cask filling operation
Scotch whisky (Scottish Gaelic: uisge-beatha na h-Alba; Scots: whisky/whiskie or whusk(e)y), [1] often simply called whisky or Scotch, is malt whisky or grain whisky (or a blend of the two) made in Scotland. The first known written mention of Scotch whisky is in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland of 1494. [2]
Whisky producing regions of Scotland. Island single malts are the single malt Scotch whiskies produced on the islands around the perimeter of the Scottish mainland. The islands (excluding Islay) are not recognised in the Scotch Whisky Regulations as a distinct whisky producing region, but are considered to be part of the Highland region. [1]
Bruichladdich Distillery logo. Bruichladdich Distillery (/ b r ʊ x ˈ l æ d i / bruukh-LAD-ee; Scottish Gaelic: [pɾuə'xl̪ˠat̪ɪç]) is a distillery on the Rhinns of the isle of Islay in Scotland.
The first whisky expression from the distillery was sold in February 2021 entitled the 'Legacy Series 2017'. [11]The second whisky available from the distillery is 'Allt Gleann single malt' which is named after one of the burns that feed the distillery.