Blackadder International

Blackadder International Profile

Blackadder International is owned by Robin Tucek and run in partnership with his daughter, Hannah, out of Coulsdon, Surrey.

The company’s ideology is that ‘cask is king’ – an attitude which has informed the company’s practice of bottling primarily single cask whiskies at cask strength, with no colouring and minimal filtration. To this end the company has gone so far as to deliberately include cask deposits and sediment within the bottles for its Raw Cask range – a practice that has endeared it to enthusiasts over the years.

Other bottling ranges produced by Blackadder – of which there have been many – include Raw Cask Statement and Raw Cask Legendary; Peat Reek and Peat Reek Embers, a series of unnamed, heavily peated single malts, some of which are finished in wine casks; Smoking Islay, a series of unnamed Islay single malts at cask strength; Black Snake, a range of Sherry cask-finished malts bottled at cask strength; Red Snake, a series of Bourbon and rum cask-finished single malts bottled at cask strength; the Chimera range of blended malt whiskies; the Aberdeen Distillers collection of single malts bottled at 46%; Riverstown, a series of cask strength single cask single malts bottled mainly for the Osaka region of Japan; and The Clydesdale Original, single malts bottled at cask strength primarily for the Japanese market.

The company also produces the Blairfindy single malt brand.

Since its founding, Blackadder has played an important role in the popularisation of cask strength, single malt whiskies.