7/14/2023 0 Comments Macallan whiskey single maltMalt: Years ago, you told me that you’re from Australia. I even went to purchase a bottle of it from a local retailer the very next day. This of course was the Isle of Jura Superstition and, while I know that the Jura brand is somewhat unfairly maligned, it was the Superstition that got me hooked back then. Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, or Macallan), my attention was swayed by a rather unusual looking bottle with the Egyptian “Ankh” symbol on it. Instead of going for the typical choices (e.g. My first foray into single malt was an unconventional one to say the least: I was at a restaurant in Singapore celebrating my 19 th birthday with my folks, and went up to the bar area to pick a dram for myself. ![]() ![]() I can’t say that I immediately fell in love with whisky, but it definitely grew on me and, as I made my way through the various blended whiskies and read up on them, I realized that the next frontier in my education would have to be single malt. It is my dad’s favorite whisky, and we usually had a bottle in our liquor cabinet, so this was my first foray into whisky. It is our job to help them find it.īrendan: My journey began many years ago, when I came across a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label. We are staunch believers that everyone has a favorite whisky they just might not have found it as yet. We celebrate this variance by selecting casks to be bottled that provide consumers with a different interpretation of what they might already be used to. Our mission is to bottle “unique spirits one cask at a time” and, while we adore our blended whiskies and single malts, we believe that single cask expressions provide a different experience due to their singular nature and the amount of variance that it provides when compared to their single malt counterparts from the same distillery. We are in the midst of completing our bonded warehouse in Glenrothes, Fife, and once we are operational in the second half of this year, we will be able to conduct all operations (storage, bottling, labeling, and logistics) from this single point of origin. Our purpose is to source, assess for quality (this process being mostly done by my fellow co-owners Chee Wei De and Kwek Yi Xian and I, alongside our founder Ben Curtis), and bottle these spirits once we believe that they are ready. Our main focus is Scotch Whisky, but we have also bottled English Whisky, American Whiskey, and Rum thus far. As the name suggests, The Single Cask focuses on sourcing and bottling good quality and unique spirits in single barrel form, and these spirits are sourced from brokers and distilleries around the world. Can you introduce yourself and The Single Cask to us?īrendan: Hi John, thank you for the opportunity to get involved in this! My name is Brendan, and I am one of the owners of The Single Cask, which is an independent bottler, bar operator ,and cask broker headquartered in the UK, Singapore, and Japan, and with flagship bars in Singapore and Athens. Malt: Hi Brendan, thanks for agreeing to do this. Most of all, he’s always up to educating those who want to learn. I know his whisky knowledge is among the best. He’s known to be a huge fan of Bruichladdich. The Single Cask Singapore’s head honcho is Brendan Pillai.īrendan is one of Singapore’s most well-known and popular whisky personalities. I thought it would be nice to feature their Singapore branch and the person in charge of it. It’s also been close to four years since that interview. However, Dora and Ben are based in Scotland. Dora interviewed their director Ben and then-PR guy Tom in 2019. This isn’t the first time The Single Cask, as a company, has been featured on Malt. After visiting a rum bar, I returned to one of the most beloved whisky bars there. This is the foundation for the worldwide fame of The Macallan.Today, I’m continuing the sharing of bits of my Singapore trip. From it’s founding by Alexander Reid, through the subsequent owners of The Macallan distillery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the present century, The Macallan has been recognized for the quality of its product above all else. Farmers had been making whisky on their farms in the area for centuries, distilling their surplus barley during the quieter winter months. The Macallan distillery was founded in 1824 by Alexander Reid, a barley farmer and school teacher. To fully appreciate The Macallan, we must understand the contributing influences of Scotland, Spain and North America, and of their respective natural raw materials, together with the methods and the craftsmanship, perfected over the generations, that combine to give such outstanding quality and distinctive character. Since then, The Macallan has built a reputation as one of the world's truly great single malt whiskies. Founded in 1824, The Macallan was one of the first distilleries in Scotland to be legally licensed.
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