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[11] [12] It is sold in 180 countries, [4] and accounts for about 35% of single malt sales. [13] Glenfiddich is currently managed by the fifth generation of William Grant's descendants. [14] In September 2014, William Grant & Sons agreed to acquire Drambuie for an undisclosed price rumoured to be in the region of £100 million. [15]
The Glenlivet brand is the biggest selling single malt whisky in the United States and the second biggest selling single malt brand globally [2] after Glenfiddich. Today, the distillery is owned by the Chivas Brothers subsidiary of the French alcoholic beverages company Pernod Ricard, which also oversees the distillery's production of 5,900,000 ...
William Grant & Sons Ltd is an independent, family-owned Scottish company that distills Scotch whisky and other selected categories of spirits. It was established in 1887 [1] by William Grant, and is run by Grant's descendants as of 2018. [2] It is the largest of the handful of Scotch whisky distillers remaining in family ownership.
Glenfiddich is the best-selling single malt Scotch in the world; [21] roughly 14 million bottles are sold annually. [ 20 ] In recent times, single malt has made up about 26% of the whisky exported to other countries; bulk spirits constituted about 5% and the balance has been blended whisky.
William Grant (businessman) William Grant (19 December 1839 – 1923) was a Scottish distiller and entrepreneur who founded William Grant & Sons, the manufacturer of Glenfiddich, as such, the first company in the world to market a true single malt whisky and a leading brand today.
21-year-old 25-year-old 30-year-old various vintages: Cask type(s) Bourbon, Sherry, Port, Rum, Madeira: Balvenie distillery is a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky ...
A farmer, George Smith, working under landlord the Duke of Gordon, was the first person in Scotland [21] to take out a licence for a distillery under the new Act, founding the Glenlivet Distillery in 1824, to make single malt Scotch. [22]
Speyside single malts are single malt Scotch whiskies, distilled in Strathspey, the area around the River Spey in Moray and Badenoch and Strathspey, in northeastern Scotland. The two best-selling single malt whiskies in the world, The Glenlivet and Glenfiddich, come from Speyside. Strathspey has the greatest number of distilleries of any of the ...