WHISKY NEWS ROUND-UP: CORONATION SPECIAL

WHISKY NEWS ROUND-UP: CORONATION SPECIAL

Peter Ranscombe rounds-up the latest coronation news from Scotch whisky brands.

SCOTLAND’S whisky distilleries are gearing up for the coronation with a raft of new releases.

Balmoral Castle & Estate, the royal family’s Scottish residence, teamed up with Diageo’s nearby Royal Lochnagar distillery to bottle the “Balmoral Coronation Edition”.

The first two bottles – on plinths made of Caledonian pine from the Balmoral Estate – were presented by the castle to the King and the Duke of Rothesay.

A further 1,000 bottles went on sale yesterday at £360 each.

Whisky bottler Gordon & MacPhail has relased its “The Private Collection 1948 from Glen Grant Distillery”.

The Scotch was distilled in the same year that the King was born.

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Only 281 bottles of the single malt are going on sale, priced at £25,000 each.

Mark Littler, Scottish Field columnist and whisky bottler, is also releasing a single malt to mark the the festivities.

His “27-Year-Old Coronation Reserve” is priced at £2,599, with 90 bottles going on sale.

The whisky was distilled by The Macallan and comes in a Glencairn Crystal decanter.

Bladnoch distillery, which the-then Duke of Rothesay opened in 2019, has also released a coronation whisky.

Only 289 bottles of the Scotch are available, priced at £180 each.

The whisky was aged in a Tokaji cask, sometimes known as the “king of wines”.

Read more news and reviews on Scottish Field’s food and drink pages, in association with Cask & Still magazine.

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