The Single Cask

Most whiskies are made by mixing a number of casks together.  If its a "single malt", that means the casks come from the same distillery; it might be three, 30, or 300 casks mixed together.  If its a "blended whisky", that means that the casks come from two or more different distilleries - again, all mixed together.  But we only bottle "single cask whisky" which means we carefully review all available casks, find the best, and just bottle that cask. Its completely unique, and totally special; once its gone, its gone forever. 

Walk into the supermarket and you'll see many whiskies on the shelf at 40% ABV (meaning 40% alcohol by volume).  You might find some at different strengths, maybe 43% or 46%. But what is likely is that the brand has added water to reduce the strength.  We don't add water to our single cask releases.  That means the whisky is the same strength that we found it in the cask; you then have a choice as to whether to enjoy it at that strength, or add your own custom amount of water.

Imagine you're a big brand, producing thousands of bottles every year.  Customers will expect each bottle to be exactly the same - including the colour.  But, whisky is a natural, organic product.  Just like fruit and veg, there is always some variation in colour.  Now some brands might add caramel colour to ensure consistency; and thats OK.  But we believe natural variation in colour is part of its character, making each whisky unique and beautiful.  So we never add any colour, keeping it pure and natural. 

Chill filtration removes some of the fatty acids from the whisky. This technique is sometimes used by other brands to prevent whiskies lower than 46% going cloudy in cold temperatures.  We never chill filter our whiskies, as we want to keep all the flavour, and all the fatty acids, in the whisky (and because we bottle at cask strength, very few of our bottles will ever go cloudy). This is why we describe all our whiskies as being "non chill filtered".

An age statement shows how long a whisky has been matured for and is printed on the label, usually in full years.  Whether its young (3 years), or old (30 years), doesn't mean the whisky is bad, or good.  You can have superb young whiskies, and sometimes old whiskies don't work.  But what we feel is important, is transparency.  That you know what you're drinking.  Thats why all our bottles carry an age statement, clearly showing how old the whisky is.

We believe whisky is meant to be open, shared and enjoyed.  We believe a good single malt can bring friends, new and old, together in conversation and life. So, we designed our bottles to be like a decanter - meant to be passed around a group of friends as they enjoy a dram together, and placed in the middle of the table as they share their thoughts.