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

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Signatory

Independent bottlers

The company was founded in 1988. It is a family owned and managed company, being one of only three true independent bottlers. They always like to draw a distinction between the independent companies who bottle their own products, and the independent companies whose products are bottled under contract. The other fully independent bottlers are: Gordon & MacPhail and Wm. Cadenhead.
The name of Signatory derived from the fact that their initial intention was to find someone famous to sign the labels for bottles produced from one single cask. The first cask we purchased was a cask of 1968 Glenlivet, which was sold long before we could find a famous person.
Until April 1992, when they moved to their current premises in Newhaven (Edinburgh), they operated from a bonded warehouse in Leith. Leith was once a well known port for importing wine from France. As this industry declined, many of the whisky companies began to occupy the old warehouses for cask storage purposes. In recent years, this has also declined, with the larger companies moving to the west of Edinburgh, where transport links are better.
In April 1992, as the company began to grow, they moved to much larger premises. Here, they were granted a licence to bottle their own products on site. They set-up a small line bottling system, primarily geared towards the bottling of single casks. Although the actual bottling of whisky is semi-automated, the emphasis is very much a hands-on operation, with hand labeling and packing of products. To add to the exclusivity of their bottlings, they often declare the cask number, date of distillation,and date of bottling on our labels. In addition,each bottle is individually hand numbered.
It is their aim, as an independent bottler to offer a range of whiskies, some of which are not bottled by the proprietor of a particular distillery, and some at different ages/strengths to those offered as distillery bottlings. The majority of their bottlings are the product of single casks, with the malt whisky enthusiast being given the opportunity to sample the subtle differences which occur with each different cask.
Signatory owns the smallest distillery from Scotland, Edradour since 22 july 2002

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	Signatory
Collection				Sample
	Bunnahabhain	Heavily peated 1997 tasting sample		17
	Glenkinchie	1987, Cask Strength		17
Cask strength Collection	Brora	Cask Strength Collection 1981	18
	Cragganmore	1989-2004		17
	Dallas Dhu	Cask Strength Collection 1975
	Glenugie	Cask Strength Collection, 1977
	Highland Park	Cask Strength Collection 1992	18
	Laphroaig	Cask Strength 1991	19
	Port Ellen	1982, 25 years (Maison du Whisky collectors)
Un-chillfiltered Collection	Ardmore	Un-chillfiltered collection 1990	17 2/3
		Un-chillfiltered Collection 1992	17
	Brora	Un-chillfiltered collection 1981	17 1/3
	Bunnahabhain	Vintage 1997 - peated	18
	Caol Ila	Un-chillfiltered collection 1989	18
		Un-chillfiltered collection 1991 Port	17 1/3
	Clynelish	Un-chillfiltered collection 1992	17 2/3
	Coleburn	Un-chillfiltered collection 1981	18 1/3
	Cragganmore	Un-chillfiltered collection 1989	16 1/2
	Edradour	Un-chillfiltered collection 1992	17 2/3
	Glenrothes	Un-chillfiltered collection 1990	17 1/2
	Highland Park	Un-chillfiltered collection 1988	18 1/2
	Isle of Jura	Un-chillfiltered collection 1988	18 1/4
	Laphroaig	Un-chillfiltered collection 1988	18 1/3
	Millburn	Un-chillfiltered collection 1983	17
	Mortlach	Un chillfiltered collection 1989	18
	Springbank	Un-chillfiltered collection 1989	14 2/3
	Tomatin	Un-chillfiltered collection 1989	18
The antique collection	Millburn	The Antique Collection, 1979	18
Signatory Vintage	Ardmore	Signatory Vintage 1977	18
	Bladnoch	Signatory Vintage 1988	17 1/3
	Blair Athol	Signatory Vintage 1987	17
	Brora	Signatory Vintage 1981	18
	Dallas Dhu	Signatory Vintage 1982	16 1/2
	Glen Albyn	Signatory Vintage 1978	17 1/3
	Glen Scotia	Signatory Vintage 1991	17
	Inchgower	Signatory Vintage 1986		15 2/3
	Littlemill	Signatory Vintage 1990	17 1/2
	Mannochmore	Signatory Vintage 1991	17
	Strathmill	Signatory Vintage1986	16 3/4
Cask sample	Bowmore	Cask Sample 1992	18
	Rosebank	Cask Sample 1991	19
Decanter Collection	Edradour	Decanter Collection	18 1/2
	Linkwood	Decanter Collection 1987	17 1/2
	Port Ellen	Decanter Collection Edition 1 1978	18 4/5
		Decanter Collection Edition 2 1978	18
Vintage	Bladnoch	Vintage 1980 (Signatory)	18 2/3
	Caol Ila	Vintage 1981 (Signatory)	18 1/5
	Edradour	Vintage 1976 (Signatory)	17 1/3
	Mannochmore	Vintage 1978	18
	Miltonduff	Mosstowie Vintage 1976 (Signatory)	17 2/3
	North Port	Vintage 1975 (Signatory)	17
	StMagdalene	Linlithgow Vintage 1975	18
Straight from the Cask	Edradour	Straight from the Cask	18 3/4
		Straight from the cask - Burgundy finish	19
The flagon collection	Caol Ila	Flagon collection (Signatory) 1991	17 1/5
Whisky Magazine	Ardmore	Whisky Magazine 1990

Straight from the Cask


Edradour	Edradour

Cask Strength Collection


Highland Park	Brora	Laphroaig

Port Ellen

Cask Sample


Rosebank	Bowmore

Signatory


Bladnoch	Brora	Glen Scotia	Inchgower

Strathmill	Glen Albyn	Blair Athol	Mannochmore

Ardmore	Dallas Dhu	Littlemill

Signatory Vintage


Bladnoch	Caol Ila	Edradour

North Port	Mosstowie (Miltonduff)	Linlithgow (St Magadlene)

Mannochmore

The flagon collection


Caol Ila

The decanter collection


Linkwood	Port Ellen	Port Ellen

Edradour

Un-chill filtered collection


Ardmore	Brora	Caol Ila	Coleburn

Edradour	Glenrothes	Highland Park	Millburn

Springbank	Tomatin	Cragganmore	Isle of Jura

Laphroaig	Clynelish	Mortlach	Ardmore

Bunnahabhain	Caol Ila

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