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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.
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]
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]
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The Distillery was founded in 1852 by William Mackenzie. When he died in 1865 his widow leased the distillery to James Fleming, a banker from Aberlour. Together with William Mackenzie's son he founded Mackenzie and Company. 1863 Branch line opened to the distillery from Carron station on the Strathspey Railway, 1.25 miles long. [2]
[7] [8] In 2014, the distillery was estimated to cost more than £5 million. [8] The distillery was incorporated into a converted former farm steading and completed in 2017. [2] [4] [7] In 2019, the distillery adopted a baby goat named 'Goaty' as its official mascot. [9] In 2021, the distillery auctioned two bottles of its first whisky for ...
I am particularly keen on the recent move from "Talisker" to "Talisker distillery", given the existence of a place on the other side of the peninsula, Talisker (Talisker, Skye), which was called "Talisker" for centuries before the distillery was built. 45ossington 13:10, 14 December 2012 (UTC)