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Richard Hawley
Spotlight: A 19th Century Relic
A number of years ago we picked up one of the oldest bottles of whisky we had ever seen, heard or come across. This was a V.O.B. Special Blended Scotch whisky that was bottled for Charles Mackinlay & Co. of Leith and supplied toThe Houses of Parliament....
Spotlight: Connoisseurs Choice
The Connoisseurs Choice series from Gordon & MacPhail is a range of the very finest single malt whiskies from one of Scotland’s favourite independent bottlers.
Spotlight: Duncan Taylor
Duncan Taylor Scotch Whisky Ltd is a specialist independent whisky merchant based in Huntly, Aberdeenshire. The company was founded in 1938 in Glasgow as a cask broker and trader. During the 1960s, the late Abe Rosenberg, a native New Yorker who had...
Ten of the Best: The Old Malt Cask
The Old Malt Cask range was first introduced by Douglas Laing & Co. Ltd. in 1998.
NEW ARRIVALS: 15 JUL 2025
Could this be our greatest drop of new products yet? Check out the latest whiskies we’ve just added to The Whisky Vault, a sensational array of vintage classics and some returning favourites – including some legendary SMWS bottlings: -