Mackillop’s Choice is a Scottish independent bottling label established in the 1990s by Angus Dundee Distillers. The range focuses on single-cask releases from a wide selection of Scottish distilleries, bottled without chill filtration and often at natural strength. Bottlings are presented in a consistent style, highlighting the individual cask and distillery rather than building a separate brand identity. Mackillop’s Choice is distributed internationally and has long been positioned as an accessible entry point into independent bottlings.
About Tomintoul
Situated on the banks of the Spey’s main tributary, the Avon (pronounced A’an), and taking its name from Scotland’s highest village nearby, Tomintoul is another 1960s distillery whose make has only recently been more widely seen as single malt.
Starting life as a small site with two stills, the number has since doubled. Its style also appears to have shifted on at least two occasions from the overtly fruity manifestations of its earliest guise to a more cereal-accented make in recent years. A peated variant, bottled as Old Ballantruan, is also now part of the portfolio. Its growing presence in the malt category will hopefully convince more people of its undoubted quality.
The distillery was built in 1965 by a pair of whisky-broking firms, Hay & MacLeod and W. & S. Strong, before being folded into the Whyte & Mackay stable in 1973. It remained part of the blending firm until 2000 when it was purchased by Angus Dundee where it performs dual functions as provider of mature spirit for contract blends and under its own guise.
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