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3rd Party Tasting Notes
Colour: Honeyed with golden highlights.
Body: Light to medium, elegant and balanced.
Nose: A fresh invigorating Speyside malt of mint, menthol and freshly cut pine. Traces of fine dark chocolate and a lingering sweet malt aroma.
Palate: An initial fibrous sweet nougat essence is complemented by the savoury flavours of brazil and hazelnut. A subtle floral freshness adds a faint perfumed bouquet to the palate.
Finish: Short, yet powerful, complex unforgettable.
Body: Light to medium, elegant and balanced.
Nose: A fresh invigorating Speyside malt of mint, menthol and freshly cut pine. Traces of fine dark chocolate and a lingering sweet malt aroma.
Palate: An initial fibrous sweet nougat essence is complemented by the savoury flavours of brazil and hazelnut. A subtle floral freshness adds a faint perfumed bouquet to the palate.
Finish: Short, yet powerful, complex unforgettable.
McClelland's
Nose: Fresh clean toilet bowl.
Palate: Watered down nail polish remover. Finish feels like alcohol, little else.
I've been saving this forever just to review it. Now I can dump it out.
Rating: D+
Palate: Watered down nail polish remover. Finish feels like alcohol, little else.
I've been saving this forever just to review it. Now I can dump it out.
Rating: D+
Andy, LA Whisky Society
The Bottler: McClelland"s
| Established: 1818 |
| Silent since: False |
| Address: Springburn Bond, Carlisle Street, Glasgow, G21 1EQ, Scotland |
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McClelland"s key markets include the United States of America, Canada, Japan and France, with new markets of South Africa, UK, Taiwan, South America, Sweden also.
There is no McClelland"s distillery per se; with the scotch being supplied by McClelland"s parent company Morrison Bowmore Distillers. The Highland, Islay, and Lowland bottlings were introduced in 1986, with Speyside added in 1999. While most of the McLelland"s bottlings do not specify an age, the brand added a second Speyside bottling with a listed age of 12-years in 2008.
The packaging of McClelland"s was updated in 2007 by Nevis Design of Edinburgh to support the expansion of the brand worldwide. It now features Scottish imagery by British artist Kathy Wyatt. Incorporated in the imagery is the character "Mr. McClelland", a 1920"s explorer making his way around Scotland taking in the sights, sounds and drams as he goes. He reports back in blog format on the McClelland"s website.
The McClelland"s range offers a chance to explore Scotland and four of the key whisky distilling regions. The McClelland"s Single Malt Whisky range was first launched in 1986 with an Islay, Highland and Lowland expression. Due to its success and demand, a Speyside expression was introduced in 1999.
McClelland"s Single Malt is a range of Single Malt Scotch whiskies from four of Scotland"s key whisky distilling regions-Highland, Islay, Speyside and Lowland.
T&A McClelland"s was a Glasgow based whisky blending and export firm established in 1818. The company was purchased in 1970 by Stanley P Morrison (later to become Morrison Bowmore Distillers) and to this day many of the T&A McClelland"s malt whisky brands are still produced and distributed on a global scale.
from McClelland"s, Wikipedia
The Owner: Morrison Bowmore Distillers
| Established: 1951 |
| Silent since: False |
| Address: Springburn Bond, Carlisle Street, Glasgow G21 1EQ, United Kingdom |
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With three Malt Whisky Distilleries situated in the major production areas of Islay, the Highlands and the Lowlands and significant blending, bottling and warehousing facilities, the company has established a leading role in the export of Bulk blend, Vatted Malt and in particular `Bottled in Scotland" Blends and Single Malts.
Morrison Bowmore Distillers acquired Bowmore in 1963, Glen Garioch in the early 70s and Auchentoshan in the 80s. Suntory acquired Morrison Bowmore Distillers and its distilleries in 1994.
Founded in 1951 by Mr Stanley P Morrison and Mr J Howat, Morrison Bowmore Distillers Limited is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Suntory Limited and is one of the major names in Scotch whisky.
from Morrison Bowmore Distillers, Malt Maniacs
The Owner: Suntory
| Established: 1899 |
| Silent since: False |
| Address: Daiba 2-3-3, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 135-8631, Japan |
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In 2003, Suntory acquired a 98.5% equity holding in Florigene. Prior to this, Florigene had been a subsidiary of global agrochemicals giant Nufarm Limited since 1999. In July 2004, Suntory and Florigene scientists announced to the world the development of the first roses containing blue pigment, an important step toward the creation of a truly blue colored rose.
On April 1, 2009, Suntory became a stockholding company named "Suntory Holdings Limited and established "Suntory Beverage and Food Limited", "Suntory Products Limited", "Suntory Wellness Limited ", "Suntory Liquors Limited", "Suntory Beer & Spirits Limited", "Suntory Wine International Limited", and "Suntory Business Expert Limited".
From the early 1990s, Suntory has collaborated extensively with Melbourne biotechnology firm Florigene to genetically engineer the world"s first true blue rose, a symbol often associated with the impossible or unattainable. In 1991, the team won the intense global race to isolate the gene responsible for blue flowers, and has since developed a range of genetically modified flowers expressing colors in the blue spectrum, as well as a number of other breakthroughs extending the vase life of cut flowers.
Suntory was started by Torii Shinjiro, who first opened his store Torii Shoten in Osaka on February 1, 1899, to sell imported wines. In 1907, the store began selling a sweet tasting red wine called Akadama Port Wine. The store became the Kotobukiya company in 1921 to further expand its business. In December 1924, Yamazaki Distillery, the first Japanese whisky distillery, began its production of malt whisky. Five years later Suntory Whisky Sirofuda (White Label), the first single malt whisky made in Japan, was sold.
Due to wartime shortage of World War II, Kotobukiya was briefly forced to halt its development of new products. In 1961, Kotobukiya launched the famous "Drink Tory"s (Whisky) and Go to Hawaii" campaign. At the time, a trip abroad was considered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In 1963, Kotobukiya changed its name to "Suntory", taken from the name of the famous whisky it produces. In the same year, Musashino Beer Factory began its production of the Suntory Beer. In 1997, the company became Japan"s sole bottler, distributor, and licensee of Pepsi products.
Suntory is a Japanese brewing and distilling company group. Established in 1899, it is one of the oldest companies in the distribution of alcoholic beverages in Japan. Its business has expanded to other fields, and the company now offers everything from soft drinks to sandwich chains. Suntory is headquartered in Dojimahama Nichome, Kita-ku, Osaka, Osaka prefecture.
Trivia:
- On July 14, 2009, Kirin announced that it is negotiating with Suntory on a merger. On February 8, 2010, it was announced that negotations between the two were terminated.
- Suntory was one of the first Asian companies to specifically employ American celebrities to market their product. One of the most notable is Sammy Davis, Jr., who appeared in a series of memorable Suntory commercials in the early 1970s. In the late 1970s, Akira Kurosawa directed a famous series of commercials featuring American celebrities on the set of his film Kagemusha. One of these featured Francis Ford Coppola (an executive producer of the film), which later inspired his daughter Sofia Coppola in her writing of Lost in Translation, a film which focuses on an American actor filming a Suntory commercial in Tokyo.
- Suntory operates two museums, the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo and the Suntory Museum Tempozan in Osaka, in addition to a number of cultural and social programs across Japan.
- There is a top Japanese rugby club called the Suntory Sungoliath owned by the Suntory company.
from Wikipedia