With regards to best-sellers for drinks big Diageo, The Singleton is most actually up there.
What’s particularly distinctive about this model, is the truth that, relying on the place on the planet you occur to dwell, you’ll get a unique model. These in Asia for instance, will take pleasure in The Singleton of Glen Ord. Whereas these in Europe will take pleasure in The Singleton of Dufftown.
Those that know their whiskies, or who simply have an excellent reminiscence, can even know that, method again when, there was once an Auchroisk single malt, although that model was sadly discontinued. The model could not be about, however you possibly can nonetheless discover uncommon and distinctive bottles of their single-malt whisky. The Singleton of Auchroisk 1975 for instance, is tougher to search out than a reliable politician, however they’re on the market, you simply must know the place to look.
Distilled in 1975 and bottled when the whisky was nonetheless known as Auchroisk Single Malt, probably across the late 80s or early 90s, it is a very particular whisky certainly.
Auchroisk Distillery
Positioned in Speyside, Banffshire to be exact, and at the moment owned by Diageo plc, the distillery was based in 1972 on the location of Dorie’s Nicely. Right here, the water was discovered to be of outstanding high quality and produced a really particular Scotch whisky.
Initially, the distillery marketed their single malt beneath the Auchroisk title, although in 1986 the one malt underwent a rebranding as individuals believed that Auchroisk could be too tough for individuals exterior the locality, to pronounce. To make life simpler, it was rebranded as ‘The Singleton’.
In 2001 the title was reverted again to ‘Auchroisk’, although in 2008 it could be as soon as once more rebranded, this time to ‘The Singleton of Auchroisk’.
