White Horse 1l Blended Whisky

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There is an excellent coverage of Sir Peter in Allen Andrews’ book “ The Whisky Barons” (1977, 2 nd edition 2003) - again, see Whisky Biblioteca. White Horse is featured in Mieko Kawakami's Breast and Eggs: A Novel (2020) as the main feature of the "all you can drink special" at the Chanel Bar in Tokyo.

Noteworthy is the role that Hazelburn distillery played in the development of the Japanese whisky industry inasmuch as the “father” of Japanese whisky, Masataka Taketsuru, in effect had his apprenticeship at the distillery when he worked there for about four months in the winter of 1920 under the stewardship of Peter Margach Innes. Taketsuru produced a report based on his experience there entitled “On the Production Methods of Pot Still Whisky”. This has now been translated into English and was published in 2021 and is an important contribution to the annals of whisky history – in both Scotland and Japan. Nothing in the Terms shall exclude or limit our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or for death or personal injury resulting from gross negligence or willful misconduct by us. Ownership soon passed to the Glen Elgin-Glenlivet Distillery Co. Ltd and, in 1907, to J.J. Blanche of Glasgow. DCL later acquired it through Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd and responsibility for it was subsequently passed to White Horse Distillers Ltd. Glen Elgin, like Lagavulin, is bottled at 12 years old, but is, of course, a totally different sort of dram. It is slightly sweet on the palate, which is not unusual for a Speyside. The White Horse blending and bottling facility is located alongside Port Dundas Grain Distillery in Glasgow which is owned and operated by another DCL subsidiary, Scottish Grain Distillers Ltd.”White Horse did particularly well in the United States and we have in Whisky Memorabilia an early photograph of their ambitious street advertising in New York in the 1900’s which clearly paid off. The distillation process spread to Scotland and Ireland by the 15th century via Alexandrian Greeks, Medieval Arabs and Latin Europeans. The Scots and the Irish, who already had a well-developed tradition of farming cereal crops, used the technique to distil from a variety of fermented grain mashes to produce a spirit, most closely resembling today's new make spirits.

We may sell, license, transfer, assign or in any other way dispose of the Service (including Members) to any third party without any notification to you, e.g. (but without limitation) in connection with any reorganization, restructuring, merger or sale, or other transfer of assets. Regardless of whether the Service offers the functionality to contribute, you are solely responsible and liable for any content and information that you create, upload, post, publish, link to, duplicate, transmit, record, display or otherwise make available on the Service or to other Members, such as chat messages, text messages, videos, audio, audio recordings, music, pictures, photographs, text and any other information or materials, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted (“Contributions”). The philosophy of the blender is very much about consistency so that every bottle of your favourite brand will be the same, no matter where you buy it. All very well in theory but over what period of time can that consistency be reasonably sustained? In a fascinating experiment carried out in 2016, two distinguished aficionados of the White Horse blend – as well as of Lagavulin - selected 6 different bottles from their respective collections from the 1930s through to the 1970s and with a group of associates subjected them to a rigorous round of tastings. Three of the whiskies fully met expectations, whilst three fell well short. The pre-War example with its spring cap fastener tightly secured and the well maintained screw cap bottlings from 1969 and 1979 all achieved the usual high expectations of the brand. And it seems that the secret lay, as one might expect, with the different closures being used at the time. The bottle from the early 1950s had had its aluminium capsule breached, the 1957 bottle’s Bakelite closure’s cork had partially disintegrated, and the 1962 bottle was also deficient. All three were deemed by the tasting panel to be well short of acceptable by normal White Horse standards. Whilst the issue rests at least in part with closure efficiency, the quality of the later bottles undoubtedly reflects the fact that the expanding whisky loch of the 1970’s and 1980’s released many casks of middle-aged whiskies into the blending halls of such famous brands as White Horse resulting in a qualitative surge in the product. Even fruitier on the palate - and creamier - with light golden raisins, banana and more papaya. The smoke is very present but fairly light. Some vanilla as well, and very, very light caramel. The peat is beautiful here. Water brings out more barley sugar, crisp grain and more smoke - an improvement. Robust and complex. Six whiskies with the same name: all different, all sharing a common character, all reinforcing the ideal of blended Scotch. So: was there quality, balance and consistency? Yes, there was, but it was also shaped by the practices and pressures of the conditions under which these whiskies were bottled, the efficiency of the closures used and the storage conditions in the years that followed.Unless mandatory applicable law provides otherwise, your use of and membership to the Service are exclusively governed by Dutch law. We shall first try to settle any dispute over a dram of whisky. Disputes that cannot be settled over multiple drams of whisky shall be solely submitted to the court of Amsterdam, The Netherlands unless mandatory applicable law provides otherwise.

But consistency over what timescale? It’s not unreasonable to expect your favoured brand to maintain a similar flavour from one bottle to the next, but where does that expectation end? After a few months? A year? What about several decades? White Horse Cellar blend enters UK domestic market and Logan’s Perfection is launched as a deluxe version.

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An even earlier example of White Horse sense of humour is the advertising post card of 1908 entitled “Scotch Fun in the Olden Times” depicting kilted half-naked highlanders at play with a hint of modest inebriation amongst some of them. Again, totally incorrect politically by today's standards. The photograph taken around 1905 of Broadway and Fifth Avenue in New York, with the prominent White Horse hoarding on top of the building at the apex of the two thoroughfares is ample proof of the brand’s early arrival in the US market. The Worth Monument can be seen in front of the White Horse sign and Madison Square is on the right. Nose: yep, White Horse smells just like dilute Lagavulin malt...and dilute wheat whisky. There is very soft peat in the Lagavulin 16 style, with no real smoke, nice,... but you wish the wheat whisky just weren't there