Scotland: Single malt whisky through the producing distilleries: history, making and tasting
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Dewar Rattray

About the independent bottler

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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.

The whisky

List of the bottles

 
  Invergordon Dewar Rattray, 40 years 1 88/100
A.D. Rattray for Whisky & Rhum Macduff L'esprit Cask Strength 9 86/100
Cask Collection Bowmore Cask Collection, 16 yo 0 0/100
Cask Collection Bowmore Cask Collection, 9 years 1 88/100
Cask Collection Bowmore Cask Collection, 17 years for Bresser & Timmer 3 88/100
Cask Collection Bowmore Cask Collection, 15 years 4 90/100
Cask Collection Bowmore Cask Collection 20 years 1 85/100
Cask Collection Caol-Ila Cask collection, 21 years 2 86/100
Cask Collection Caperdonich Cask Collection 26 years 1980-2007 1 85/100
Cask Collection Craigellachie Cask Collection, 16 years 1 88/100
Cask Collection Glen-Garioch Cask Collection 1990 1 84/100
Cask Collection Glencadam Cask Collection 16 years 1 84/100
Cask Collection Glenfarclas Cask Collection, 1966 1 88/100
Cask Collection Glenglassaugh Cask Collection, 21 years 1 91/100
Cask Collection Glenlivet Cask Collection 17 years 3 84/100
Cask Collection Highland-Park Cask Collection, 16 years 2 88/100
Cask Collection Highland-Park Cask Collection, 18 years 2 86/100
Cask Collection Imperial 25 years 1 91/100
Cask Collection Laphroaig Cask Collection 11 years   0/100
Cask Collection Linkwood Cask Collection   0/100
Cask Collection Lochside 1987   0/100
Cask Collection Longmorn 1990-2010 1 89/100
Cask Collection Miltonduff Cask Collection, 26 years 3 87/100
Cask Collection Mortlach Cask Collection 13 years 2 84/100
Cask Collection Port-Ellen Cask Collection, 25 years old, 60.4% 1 93/100
Cask Collection Port-Ellen Cask Collection, 24 years old, 58.2% 2 90/100
Cask Collection Pulteney Cask Collection, 26 years 1 84/100
Cask Collection Royal-Lochnagar Cask Collection 10 years 1 74/100
Cask Collection Springbank Cask Collection 13 years - for Potstill Austria 1 88/100
Cask Collection Teaninich Cask Collection 30 years 1 84/100
Cask Collection Tomatin Cask Collection 20 years 1 88/100