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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.
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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 ...
In 1825, Hugh MacAskill took over the Talisker estate and completed the clearance process begun under his predecessor. Five years later, he founded the Talisker distillery, which is in fact located some 5 miles (8 kilometres) away from Talisker at Carbost, Loch Harport. MacAskill gave up his lease of the Talisker lands in 1849. [4]
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In the early 1920s the distillery was sold off by Iain Ramsay to Peter Mackie for £16,000 (equivalent to £811,800 in 2023). [3] In 1923 the firm was acquired by Buchanan Dewar Ltd who continued with the White Horse brand. [8] The company joined Distillers Company in 1925. [6] Distillers Company was acquired by Guinness in 1986.
United Distillers was a Scottish company formed in 1987 from combining the businesses of Distillers Company and Arthur Bell & Sons, both owned by Guinness. [1] The company owned six single malt Scotch brands, which were relaunched as the Classic Malts range.
Port Ellen was established as a malt mill in 1825, and then developed as a distillery under John Ramsay from 1833 to 1892. The warehouses he built still exist and are listed buildings. [1] The distillery was acquired by The Distillers Company (DCL) in 1925, was closed in 1930 and rebuilt in 1966/1967. It continued in production throughout the ...