Miyagikyo distillery was founded in 1969 by Nikka, also known for their other distillery Yoichi that is located on the northern island of Hokkaido. Miyagikyo is located close to Sendai, a town 300 km to…

Chivas Regal traces its name back to the House of Chivas, a large mansion that was built at Shivas in Aberdeenshire in 1640; the name is derived from the Gaelic ‘seamhas’, meaning ‘narrow place’. In 1801…

Bruichladdich distillery is located on the north shore of Loch Indaal on Islay, near the town of Port Charlotte. It was built in 1881 by the Harvey brothers who were a dynastic whisky family that had…

‘Za’ is a blended whisky that was released by Suntory as a new brand on 5 September 2000. ‘Za’ is the Japanese character for ‘to sit’ and apparently was chosen to suggest that this blend should be enj…

Ardbeg is undoubtedly one of the most well-known and beloved malt whisky distilleries in the world. Founded by Alexander Stewart, Ardbeg’s first record as a distillery dates back to 1794, and commercial…

Chichibu distillery is located in the town of Chichibu, close to the city of Saitama and about 120 kilometres to the northwest of Tokyo. Ichiro Akuto, the distillery’s charismatic founder, started con…

The Macallan distillery was founded in 1824 by Alexander Reid and was operated from the original buildings of Macallan farm. At the time it was named Elchies distillery after a nearby estate. The dist…

Taketsuru 21 year-old belongs to Nikka’s core range of blended malt whiskies. The term “Pure Malt” indicates that this does not contain any grain whisky but malt whisky from the Miyagikyo and Yoichi…

Dalwhinnie distillery was built by investors John Grant, George Sellar and Alex Mackenzie in 1897 under the name of Strathspey and is located in Inverness-shire in the western Highlands. Production…

Bunnahabhain distillery was founded in 1881 by William Robertson and the Greenless brothers William and James. Production started in earnest in 1883 and in 1887 the distillery was integrated into High…