Region: Lowland
Age: 33 Years
Distil Date: 29.01.91
Strength: 43.3%
Cask Type: Refill Bourbon Barrel
Outturn: One of 163 bottles
Additional Info: Single Cask

Region: Lowland (Grain)

Founded: 1885

Capacity: 73,000,000 Litres

Owner: Edrington & Diageo via The North British Distillery Company

Status: Active

The North British distillery was founded in Edinburgh in 1885. Up until that point, Scotland’s blenders and spirit merchants could only buy their grain from DCL. In an attempt to break the monopoly, Andrew Usher, William Sanderson, John Crabbie and James Watson joined forces to build a new – and substantial – grain distillery in Gorgie, close to the Union Canal, the railway line, and the Caledonian distillery which had been absorbed into DCL the year before.

By the 1960s it was still being run as a kind of co-operative with its shareholders including Robertson & Baxter, IDV, William Lawson, Macdonald Martin, Seagram and William Teacher. In 1993 its management was taken over by Lothian Distillers, an equal partnership between R&B [now Edrington Group] and IDV. The result of the merger between the latter and DCL (by that time called UD) in 1997, meant that North British was being jointly run by the firm which it had set up in opposition to. The irony!

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