Updated October 6th, 2017 By Kurt Maitland Average Rating: B This review demands I cover two histories here, that of the Lost Distillery Company and also the Stratheden Distillery. The Lost Distillery is an independent whisky company whose stated mission is “to create present day expressions of legendary whiskies that belonged to the craft of whisky distilling almost a century ...

By Richard Thomas The reappearance of Johnnie Walker Green Label, the 15 year old vatted malt so popular with many Scotch drinkers, on American store shelves starting in February prompted a flurry of speculation in whiskey circles, as it was unaccompanied by any announcement on the part of parent company Diageo. Green Label was replaced by a combination of the ...

By Richard Thomas The big names in vatted malt Scotch can draw on stock from dozens of Scottish distilleries in making their product, but whether one of them draws on stock from all six of Scotland’s whisky regions remains unknown because the complete source list for these brands remains secret. If there was a six-region vatted malt from that group, ...

By Kurt Maitland Rating: B+ This is an old brand, named after the Gaelic word “uisge beatha” meaning “water of life”. The blend dating back to the 1700’s and was trademarked in 1877. It has had several owners since then – Ross & Cameron, William Grigor & Sons, and Twelve Stone Flagons Ltd. For a fair amount of time, it ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ As independent bottlers are dependent on others for their stock, they sometimes find they must discontinue certain expressions because the whiskeys involved in making them become unavailable. The crafty folks at Compass Box have been forced into this position several times, and one such instance was the company’s very first vatted malt, Eleuthera. In production ...