To many 'blending' in the whisky industry is a dirty word, but with our family's premium wine background we believe differently. All premium wines are 'blended', even the best Bordeaux and Burgundy wines, with the best being a blend of the finest different batches of separate wines. We see no reason why this approach cannot be used in malt whiskies. For these whiskies we are what the wine industry calls a 'negociant' - choosing and blending a small number of very fine casks.

Our family meticulously hand selects each individual cask, under the expert eye of Charlie Maclean (author of eight books on the subject of malt whisky). We pore over many hundreds of casks to select what we think is the best the industry has to offer.

Having selected the casks from different distilleries they are blended together to create three distinct taste profiles: 'Spicy' (Spice King), 'Peaty' (Peat Chimney) and 'Smooth' (Smooth Gentleman).

All are bottled at 43% and the age is a minimum of five years old. Where possible, the different whiskies are 'married' together for a period of months, allowing the fullest integration of the different malts, prior to bottling.