Buchanan's
James Buchanan’s late Victorian blend remains hugely popular in Hispanic markets.
The world’s first luxury blended whisky owned by Chivas Brothers is a lesson in survival.
The Imperial distillery made way for Chivas Brothers’ modern yet historically-sympathetic Dalmunach.
A relatively recent and short-lived deluxe blend from Chivas Brothers developed for travel retail.
One of the first blends released by Chivas Brothers, and a forerunner to Chivas Regal.
Part of Chivas Brothers' portfolio, Aberlour is best known for its cult expression, A'Bunadh.
A core standard blend in the Chivas Brother’s portfolio, especially popular in Asia.
Victorian blend that became world-famous thanks to its friendly black and white terrier mascots.
Delicate, fruity Speysider recently relaunched as a single malt whisky.
One of the Lowland grain distilleries forming the naissance of DCL in the 19th century.
A Lowland grain distillery now transformed into Diageo’s cooperage hub in Alloa.
Edinburgh-situated grain giant that was once the largest distillery in Scotland.
Experimental Highlands distillery operating from an old fire station beside a castle.
Although silent for decades, Parkmore is still standing and in remarkably good condition.
The most successful blended Scotch created by one of Glasgow’s great brokers, Wm Lundie & Co.
A lost distillery of the early 19th century, located somewhere in Stirlingshire, now Dunbartonshire.
Single malt distillery owned by Diageo, located on the banks of the Strathspey.
This shy Speyside distillery was more famous for its experimental work than its single malt.
This enduring Scotch whisky is best known for its associations to explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Also known as Brechin, North Port was a family-owned distillery bought out and closed by DCL.
It wasn't until its demise that Port Ellen’s whisky grew to become some of the most iconic.
One of the most famous names in the Port trade also produced some very respectable Scotch.
An historic site given a new lease of life as a grassy, malty Lowland malt.
Long-gone malt distillery situated inside Glasgow’s Strathclyde grain plant.
Orkney's Scapa is the only distillery to use a Lomond still to create whisky.
Strathisla is the oldest licensed, and very well prettiest, distillery in Scotland.
A 19th century distillery that was once located in its namesake village in Perthshire.
Once Scotland’s most easterly distillery that fell victim to the 1980s whisky loch.
Teaninich is almost unique in its absence of a mash tun, but is one of Diageo’s giant workhorses.
One of the oldest distilleries in Speyside and one that still uses direct fire to heat its stills.
The biggest, and most iconic, blended Scotch whisky is recognisable the world over.
Some grain whisky from the lost North of Scotland distillery was bottled under the name ‘Alloa’.
The ‘world’s lightest Scotch’ was a blended whisky with a large following in the US.
A historic brand known as ‘the Glengoyne blend’ for its high proportion of the distillery’s malt.
Bottled in colourful ceramic decanters, this blended Scotch aims high when it comes to age.
An experimental peated Speyside malt produced at Glen Keith distillery on Speyside in the 1970s.
This historic blended Scotch has its roots in Moray, but has a loyal following in Columbia.
Balloch distillery stood in or near its namesake castle by the southern tip of Loch Lomond.
William Whiteley named this blended malt after Edradour distillery’s original moniker.
Speyside blended malt featuring whiskies sourced from Mortlach, Macallan and Glenrothes.
Laphroaig’s short-lived (and despised) neighbour which was also known as Ardenistle and Kidalton.
An ancient blend from the same stable as Grand Old Parr, whose fans may have included Al Capone.
Rathohall, also known as Ratho, was a Midlothian distillery established near Edinburgh in the 1820s.
Blended Scotch initially created as an exclusive dram for Freemasons, though now widely available.
With its 3 Star and 5 Star versions, Crawford’s was once a very popular blend in Scotland.
An early Caithness distillery near Halkirk that at one point encompassed two sites.
Dundee’s only known legal distillery survived for only a decade in the early 19th century.
A vanished 19th century distillery, also known as Bank of Bishoptown and Kirkcudbright.
Also called House of Burns, a lost distillery at Monzievaird, near Crieff in Perthshire.
A late Victorian blend produced by the eponymous distiller Peter Dawson, now owned by Diageo.
Another bygone blend that was created by the wine & spirit merchant W.H. Chaplin & Co.
The proprietary brand of what became Ainslie & Heilbron (Distillers) Ltd, an old DCL subsidiary.
Be it Dimple Haig or Dimple Pinch, this blend is still going over 120 years since its creation.
One of the lesser-known blends from Glaswegian distiller and blender John Hopkins & Co.
A lost blend that recalls the area of Aberdeen where bottler Wm Cadenhead Ltd was first established.
Blended whisky created in the early 20th century by Aberdeen bottler Wm Cadenhead.
Another successful colour-coded Scotch blend, if not quite as famous as Johnnie Walker or Dewar’s.
Blended Scotch with one of the longest histories of any continuously-produced whisky.
An export-only blend from the late-Victorian era that became ingrained in Glenmorangie plc’s DNA.
This historic blended Scotch was first created by Skye blender Ian Macleod in the mid-1900s.
A venerable old Glaswegian blend with a distinctive ‘thin red line’ down the label.
Blended Scotch that remains part of the diverse range of products made at Loch Lomond distillery.
Leith blender James Munro & Son produced a series of blended scotch whiskies under the Munro’s name.
The blended Scotch whisky that kick-started the Douglas Laing firm, first created in 1886.
The flagship blend of John Haig & Co. was the first spirit to smash the million case barrier.
A heavily peated single malt, distilled on the Isle of Islay at Bruichladdich distillery.
Finishing in a French oak prunelle liqueur cask gives this single malt a fruity edge.
Heavily peated Lowland malt produced at the short-lived Killyloch distillery in Airdrie.
A rarely bottled, experimental peated malt produced at the closed Lowlands Littlemill distillery.
This malt whisky is rare indeed, and comes from a defunct whisky broker in London.
Old Pulteney single malt is distilled in the fishing port of Wick at the Pulteney distillery.
One of the ‘Big Five’ producers that grew from a one-man business into a global empire.
A family company that owned and operated a single distillery, Dalmore, for nearly a century.
Former Glasgow-based blender and distiller, whose brand name is now owned by Ian Macleod Distillers.
Indie bottling enterprise founded by the brothers Scott and Andrew Laing.
Blending and distilling operation perhaps most famous today for its London dry gin.
The successful Scotch whisky arm of the doomed Canadian distilling giant of the same name.
Independent bottling company and Islay whisky distiller based in Glasgow.
Prolific English gin and Scotch whisky distiller and blender that became Long John International.
Once owner of Lagavulin distillery and creator of the globally successful White Horse blend.
A quiet subsidiary of Edrington, but once a powerful 19th century whisky blender and distiller.
Scotch whisky giant that assumed virtual control of the Scotch whisky industry.
Canadian distiller Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts’ Scotch whisky operation.
Distiller and blender responsible for the Queen Anne and Something Special blends.
Distilling and blending company whose whisky was on board the ill-fated S.S Politician.
An independent distiller and blender that once operated Caol Ila and Tamdhu distilleries.
US owner of The BenRiach Distillery Company, and producer of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey.
British brewer, hotelier and restaurateur that at one time owned five Scotch whisky distilleries.
Owner of two distilleries in in the Argyllshire port of Campbeltown.
Glasgow-based blender, bottler and owner of Glen Scotia distillery in Campbeltown.
Former owner of the Clynelish (Brora) distillery in Sutherland.
The group formed by the merger of Glenlivet, Glen Grant, BenRiach, Caperdnoich and Longmorn.
Leith-based whisky blender most famous for its Vat 69 blend.
Independent distilling operation, with two distilleries, located on the Isle of Arran.
US-based liquor giant that held significant Scotch interests during the 20th century.
Distilling dynasty best known for its early adoption of the patent still at Cameronbridge.
Glasgow whisky broker that grew into a distilling and blending heavyweight.
A whisky blending and bottling company famous for its Clan Campbell blended whiskies.
Bristol-based wine and spirits group that grew to become the second-largest in the world.
A leading single malt Scotch whisky distiller and blender under Thai ownership.
A hotel and catering conglomerate which became one of the world’s top wine and spirit producers.
Edinburgh-based company with two Speyside distilleries and one Highland distillery in its portfolio.
Legendary wine merchant that bottled whiskies for a short period in the 1970s and 80s.
London-based independent bottler that produces the Port Askaig and Elements of Islay brands.
Independent bottler and operator of Dornoch distillery in Sutherland.
One of Scotland’s oldest and most respected independent bottlers, and a distiller since 1998.
The current custodian of Rothes’ Glen Grant distillery, which is owned by Italy’s Gruppo Campari.
Two of Scotland’s most renowned whisky families merged to form an alliance during the 1950s.
The holding company of Laphroaig distillery, now owned by US-Japan entity, Beam Suntory.
Operator of the Tomintoul distillery at Ballindalloch, and previous owner of Fettercairn.
Danish brewery and micro distillery which also has a range of independent bottlings to its name.
Prominent 1980s Italian indie bottler that helped establish a trend for cask strength whiskies.
Modern holding company responsible for the operation of Islay’s Bunnahabhain distillery.
One-time owner of Bladnoch distillery that became a Glasgow-based blender and exporter.
Danish wine and spirits store stocking a small selection of own-label Scotch whisky.
A famous name in the world of Scotch whisky and wine, and one which has survived to the present day.
The London-based luxury department store has had several Scotch whiskies bottled under its name.
One of Sweden’s new start-up distilleries making a strong name for itself around the globe.
Producer of the James Martin blends, and now a subsidiary company of The Glenmorangie Co Ltd.
Exporter of bulk blended whiskies to the US, Italy, Germany and the Far East.
Once the UK’s third-largest supermarket chain, which owned the Glen Nevis and Auld Acrimony brands.
Independent whisky retailer in Zurich, which occasionally offers its own label Scotch.
An online retailer offering a curated range of Scotch whisky, specialising in single casks.
Whisky‘n’More is a German trade fair with a retail arm that sells whisky under its own label.
German whisky retailer specialising in Scotch whisky with a small number of own label bottlings.
Famous and influential Italian importer and bottler of Scotch whisky and rum.
Edinburgh-based independent bottler and producer of the whisky cask-rested Firkin Gin.
Terroir-focused independent bottler that was founded in Aberdeen by its Japanese owner.
Private members’ club and independent bottler of whiskies and spirits.
Subscribers to Whisky Magazine Japan’s members club were privy to exclusive bottlings.
Modest sized blender and bottler originally based out of Glasgow as part of Train & McIntyre.
A subsidiary of Campbell & Clark that bottled a small number of single malts.
American bottler specialising in Scotch and world whiskies under the Single Cask Nation label.
Family-run German spirits importer that regularly bottles its own Scotch whiskies.
Italian bottler with strong historical connections to recent whisky history in Italy.
Family-owned American wine and spirits merchant based in San Francisco.
A small independent Belgian bottler and importer run by whisky writer Bert Bruyneel.
A London-based independent bottler that also operates a retail shop and bar in Singapore.
Long-standing Bologna whisky bar and shop with a short history of independent bottlings.
Village grocer, ironmonger and wine and spirits merchant that became known for its whisky.