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Dewar Rattray

Independent bottlers

Founded by Andrew Dewar and William Rattray in 1868, A Dewar Rattray began trading as an importer of French wines, Italian spirits and olive oil.

More importantly, however, the company also established itself as a specialist in the field of blending and storage of malt and grain whiskies. In the latter part of the 1800s A Dewar Rattray Ltd came to represent a number of well-known Highland Malt distilleries - most notably Stronachie - selling bulk whisky to West of Scotland wine and spirit merchants, publicans and the main Scotch whisky blending houses in and around Glasgow. Like many other merchants, A Dewar Rattray Ltd suffered during the crisis of the early 1900s and in the late 1920s the partners sold the business to William Walker. Well-established as a whisky broker, Walker set about expanding the business with the acquisition of a number of smaller merchants. Despite rationing during the 2nd World War, the company continued to supply the West of Scotland licensed trade until Walker's death.
Collection A Dewar Rattray Ltd has returned to the family and is owned by Mr Tim Morrison, previously of Morrison Bowmore Distillers and fourth generation descendent of Andrew Dewar. A Dewar Rattray Ltd's resurgence stems back to early 2004 when, using his extensive knowledge and expertise in the whisky industry, Mr Morrison bottled a selection of his own handpicked stock of whiskies for market release. Today the company's principal purpose is to bottle unusual and exclusive casks of Scotch Whisky, with each one chosen to reflect the different styles of the six individual whisky regions of Scotland. Whether from Mr Morrison's own stock or independently sourced, only casks which are found to be of exceptional quality are bottled under the Dewar Rattray Cask Collection label and released into selected markets.

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	Dewar Rattray
Collection				Sample
	Invergordon	Dewar Rattray, 40 years		19
Cask Collection	Bowmore	Cask Collection, 17 years for Bresser & Timmer	19
		Cask Collection, 15 years	19 1/3
		Cask Collection, 9 years	19
	Caol-Ila	Cask collection, 21 years	18
	Craigellachie	Cask Collection, 16 years	19
	Springbank	Cask Collection 13 years - for Potstill Austria	19
	Glencadam	Cask Collection 16 years	18
	Glenfarclas	Cask Collection, 1966		19
	Glen-Garioch	Cask Collection 1990		18
	Glenglassaugh	Cask Collection, 21 years	19
	Glenlivet	Cask Collection 17 years	18
	Highland-Park	Cask Collection, 18 years	18 1/2
		Cask Collection, 16 years	19
	Linkwood	Cask Collection
	Miltonduff	Cask Collection	18 1/2
	Mortlach	Cask Collection 13 years	18
	Port-Ellen	Cask Collection, 24 years old, 58.2%	19
		Cask Collection, 25 years old, 60.4%
	Pulteney	Cask Collection, 26 years
	Royal-Lochnagar	Cask Collection 10 years	16
	Teaninich	Cask Collection 30 years		18
	Tomatin	Cask Collection 20 years

Cask Collection


Bowmore	Highland Park	Caol Ila	Springbank

Miltonduff	Bowmore	Glenlivet	Glencadam

Craigellachie	Highland Park	Port Ellen	Bowmore

Royal Lochnagar	Mortlach	Glenglassaugh	Pulteney

Tomatin

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