Famous Grouse Whisky

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  Famous Grouse 1 liter Blended Whisky 40%

  Item no.: 22227865425-10

  Some bottles are bought for a particular evening. This one is bought because it needs to be there. The litre bottle is Famous Grouse in household format, the one that keeps on standing when guests turn up unannounced.

  The expert description

  Famous Grouse 1 Litre is a Blended Scotch Whisky bottled at 40% in a 100 cl bottle.

  The blend was created in Perth in 1896 by Matthew Gloag, who named it after the red grouse. The bird became the company mark, the whisky was known locally as Gloag’s Grouse, and when the family incorporated Matthew Gloag & Son in 1905 they made the nickname official: The Famous Grouse. The brand left the family in 1970 and has been owned by William Grant & Sons since July 2025.

  The style has not moved much. Malt whisky from Scottish distilleries, with Highland Park historically among those giving the blend its character, is bound together with grain whisky into a soft and rounded blend with no sharp edges. The litre bottle holds the same whisky as the standard size and speaks to those who go through it steadily.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Harmonious and calm. Dried fruit and honey first, then vanilla, nuts and a touch of citrus.

  Palate

  Unusually soft and round with clear fruit. Ripe undertones and a lightly spiced edge that keeps it from turning dull.

  Finish

  Short to medium, clean and lightly sweet with malt at the close.

  Specifications

  Name: Famous Grouse 1 Litre
  Distillery: The Famous Grouse
  Region/Country: Scotland
  Type: Blended Scotch Whisky
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 100 CL
  EAN no.: 5010314101015

  Flavour profile

  Soft · Fruity · Honeyed · Malty · Lightly spiced

  Did you know?

  The red grouse on the label was not drawn by an advertising artist. The image came from Philippa Gloag, a daughter of the family, who painted the bird in the late 1800s. It has followed the bottle ever since and become one of the most recognisable marks in Scotch whisky.

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  • 1pcs.
    49,50EUR
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  Famous Grouse 450 cl Blended Whisky 40%

  Item no.: 22227865425-5001

  Four and a half litres of whisky is not a bottle you lift with one hand. That is why it comes with a cradle, and why it ends up being the centrepiece of the evening rather than something standing on a shelf.

  The expert description

  Famous Grouse 4.5 Litre is a Blended Scotch Whisky bottled at 40% in a 450 cl bottle.

  The bottle is supplied with a metal pouring cradle so it can be served without being lifted. That is a practical necessity rather than an accessory, since a full bottle at this size weighs far too much to handle freehand at a table.

  The whisky inside is the classic Famous Grouse, created in Perth in 1896 and owned by William Grant & Sons since July 2025. Malt whisky from Scottish distilleries, with Highland Park historically among those providing the character, is bound together with grain whisky into a soft blend with no sharp edges. The format is aimed at parties, bars and collectors with shelf space.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Calm and harmonious with dried fruit, honey and vanilla, and nuts plus a touch of citrus underneath.

  Palate

  Soft and round with clear fruit, ripe undertones and a lightly spiced edge.

  Finish

  Short to medium, clean and lightly sweet with malt at the close.

  Specifications

  Name: Famous Grouse 4.5 Litre
  Distillery: The Famous Grouse
  Region/Country: Scotland
  Type: Blended Scotch Whisky
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 450 CL
  Edition: Supplied with a metal pouring cradle

  Flavour profile

  Soft · Fruity · Honeyed · Malty · Lightly spiced

  Did you know?

  Large bottles do not mature differently from small ones, since whisky does not develop in glass, but they do last longer once opened. The less air there is relative to liquid, the slower the oxidation, so a nearly full large format is better off than a nearly empty standard bottle.

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  • 1pcs.
    164,75EUR
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  Famous Grouse Blended Whisky 40%

  Item no.: 22227865425-7

  In 1896 a whisky merchant in Perth needed a name for his new blend. He chose the bird out on the moor. A hundred and thirty years later it still stands on the label, and the whisky behind it has never felt any need to reinvent itself.

  The expert description

  Famous Grouse is a Blended Scotch Whisky matured in oak casks and bottled at 40%.

  Matthew Gloag created the blend in Perth in 1896 and took the red grouse as his mark. Customers started asking for the famous grouse, and in 1905 the family took the hint and named it The Famous Grouse. The family sold up in 1970, and since July 2025 the brand has been owned by William Grant & Sons.

  The recipe rests on malt whisky from Scottish distilleries, with Highland Park historically setting much of the tone, bound together with grain whisky. The malt delivers fruit and spice, the grain delivers the softness, and the balance between them is why the bottle has been the best selling blend in Scotland for decades.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Deep gold in the glass. A harmonious aroma of dried fruit and honey, with vanilla, nuts and citrus behind it.

  Palate

  Exceptionally soft and round with a pleasing fruitiness. Beneath it sit ripe, lightly spiced undertones that give it more to work with than expected.

  Finish

  Short to medium, clean and lightly sweet with malt at the close.

  Specifications

  Name: Famous Grouse
  Distillery: The Famous Grouse
  Region/Country: Scotland
  Type: Blended Scotch Whisky
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 70 CL
  EAN no.: 5010314700003

  Flavour profile

  Soft · Fruity · Honeyed · Malty · Lightly spiced

  Did you know?

  Famous Grouse has held a royal warrant since 1984, but the connection reaches back further: Matthew Gloag’s business in Perth supplied wine to Queen Victoria when she visited Scotland in 1842, more than fifty years before the first Grouse was blended.

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  • 1pcs.
    24,00EUR
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  Famous Grouse Cask Series Ruby Cask Port Cask Finish Blended Scotch Whisky 40%

  Item no.: 505956-498796-36

  Port casks leave a clear mark. They tint the whisky reddish, pull it towards berries and plums, and can easily end up drowning everything else. Ruby Cask stays on the right side of that line.

  The expert description

  Famous Grouse Cask Series Ruby Cask is a Blended Scotch Whisky finished in ruby port casks and bottled at 40%.

  Cask Series is the name for the releases where the classic Grouse blend gets an extra period in a cask with a past. Here it is ruby port, the fresh and fruity style rather than the nutty tawny, and the difference registers immediately. The base whisky is still soft and rounded, but the port wood lays a layer of red fruit and baking spice over the top.

  The finishing period is short enough that the blend underneath still comes through. This is not a port whisky but a Famous Grouse with the port cask as an added voice.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Baking spice first, soft vanilla, cinnamon and clove, and beneath it red berries, a touch of oak and a light sweetness.

  Palate

  Ripe stone fruit and red berries, plums and caramel, with light tannins from the port wood keeping the sweetness in check.

  Finish

  Medium to long, soft and sweet with fruit that lingers.

  Specifications

  Name: Famous Grouse Cask Series Ruby Cask
  Distillery: The Famous Grouse
  Region/Country: Scotland
  Type: Blended Scotch Whisky
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 70 CL
  Cask type: Finished in ruby port casks
  Edition: Cask Series
  EAN no.: 5010314306540

  Flavour profile

  Fruity · Sweet · Soft · Spiced · Berry

  Did you know?

  Ruby and tawny port come from the same grapes but are handled entirely differently. Ruby is aged briefly in large vessels and keeps its fresh, deep red fruit, while tawny spends years in small casks and turns nutty and brown. That is why a ruby cask pulls whisky towards berries rather than towards walnut.

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  • 1pcs.
    26,75EUR
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  Famous Grouse Miniature Blended Scotch Whisky 5 cl 40%

  Item no.: 22227865479-1106-197279784

  Five centilitres is enough to form an opinion. That is what the miniature is for, as a sample, as a place setting gift, or as the bottle that goes in a pocket when carrying a full one makes no sense.

  The expert description

  Famous Grouse Miniature is a Blended Scotch Whisky bottled at 40% in a 5 cl bottle.

  The contents are identical to the full size bottle: the classic Grouse blend that Matthew Gloag created in Perth in 1896 and named after the red grouse. The brand has been owned by William Grant & Sons since July 2025.

  Miniatures like this get used for three things, trying a whisky without committing, setting one at each place at dinner, or taking one along where a full bottle would be absurd. Malt whisky, with Highland Park historically among the load bearing names, bound together with grain whisky, gives the same soft profile in small format.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Dried fruit and honey, with vanilla, nuts and a touch of citrus underneath.

  Palate

  Soft and round with a fruitiness that carries all the way, and ripe, lightly spiced undertones.

  Finish

  Short to medium, clean and lightly sweet with malt at the close.

  Specifications

  Name: Famous Grouse Miniature
  Distillery: The Famous Grouse
  Region/Country: Scotland
  Type: Blended Scotch Whisky
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 5 CL
  EAN no.: 50792511

  Flavour profile

  Soft · Fruity · Honeyed · Malty · Lightly spiced

  Did you know?

  Miniatures are a collecting field of their own. Some collections run to tens of thousands of bottles, and old miniatures from closed distilleries can be the only way to taste whisky that was never bottled at full size in that particular year.

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  • 1pcs.
    5,25EUR
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  Famous Grouse Miniature Smoky Black Blended Scotch Whisky 5 cl 40%

  Item no.: 059763-615-289

  The black label signals what has happened here: somebody has laid peat smoke underneath the soft Grouse profile. The result is not an Islay whisky, but it is not the same bird as before either.

  The expert description

  Famous Grouse Smoky Black is a Blended Scotch Whisky made with peated malt, bottled at 40% in a 5 cl bottle.

  The release was originally called The Black Grouse and was later renamed Smoky Black. The recipe takes the classic blend and raises the proportion of peated malt whisky, so the smoke becomes a load bearing element rather than a seasoning. The underlying honey and fruit are still there, but they now sit behind a sooty foreground.

  The miniature is a sensible way to settle whether the style is for you. Smoky blends divide opinion, and 5 cl is enough to answer the question without committing to a full bottle.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Dry smoke and bonfire ash first, then honey and dried fruit working their way up through it.

  Palate

  Soft and sweet at the base with the smoke as a clear frame. Malt, vanilla and a touch of dark chocolate as the peat builds.

  Finish

  Medium and sooty with a dry, almost peppery close.

  Specifications

  Name: Famous Grouse Smoky Black
  Distillery: The Famous Grouse
  Region/Country: Scotland
  Type: Blended Scotch Whisky
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 5 CL
  Cask type: Oak casks
  Edition: Smoky Black
  EAN no.: 5010314302481

  Flavour profile

  Smoky · Soft · Sweet · Malty · Peaty

  Did you know?

  The change of name from The Black Grouse to Smoky Black was not incidental. The black grouse is a threatened species in Scotland, and for years the brand supported conservation work with a share of the proceeds, but a name describing the flavour sells better on a shelf than one describing a bird.

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  • 1pcs.
    4,00EUR
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  Famous Grouse Miniature The Snow Grouse Blended Grain Scotch Whisky 2 cl 40%

  Item no.: 059763-615-290

  Most whiskies go cold and close up. This one was made for the opposite. It belongs in the freezer until it turns thick, and only then does it make sense.

  The expert description

  The Snow Grouse is a Blended Grain Scotch Whisky bottled at 40% in a 2 cl bottle.

  Where the rest of the Famous Grouse family builds on malt bound together by grain, Snow Grouse is grain whisky throughout. That is a deliberate choice, because grain whisky is softer, sweeter and carries fewer sharp edges, which is precisely why it can be served ice cold without the flavour disappearing the way it would in a malt.

  The producer recommends keeping the bottle in the freezer and pouring it straight from there. The cold makes the whisky syrupy in texture and pushes it towards vanilla and cream. It is a different way of drinking whisky from the usual one, and that is the entire idea.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Discreet and clean. Vanilla, pale caramel and a touch of green fruit, more restrained still when the bottle comes straight from the freezer.

  Palate

  Soft, sweet and almost creamy. Vanilla and cream in front, cereal sweetness underneath, with no sharp alcohol edge.

  Finish

  Short and clean with a final sweetness of malt and vanilla.

  Specifications

  Name: The Snow Grouse
  Distillery: The Famous Grouse
  Region/Country: Scotland
  Type: Blended Grain Scotch Whisky
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 2 CL
  Edition: The Snow Grouse

  Flavour profile

  Soft · Sweet · Creamy · Vanilla · Light

  Did you know?

  Grain whisky accounts for the great majority of all Scotch whisky produced, yet it is almost never sold on its own. It disappears into blends where nobody names it. Snow Grouse is one of the few cases where it gets to stand alone on the label.

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  • 1pcs.
    5,25EUR
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  Famous Grouse Smoky Black Blended Scotch Whisky 70 cl 40%

  Item no.: 22227865479-1106-19617

  Glenturret is the oldest working distillery in Scotland, and it almost never makes peated whisky. Almost. The handful of casks that do get made end up here, and that is the entire reason Smoky Black tastes the way it does.

  The expert description

  Famous Grouse Smoky Black is a Blended Scotch Whisky made with peated malt, matured in oak casks and bottled at 40%.

  The blend launched in 2015 as the successor to The Black Grouse and is built around a rare peated expression of Glenturret. This is not an Islay whisky poured into a blend. It is malt from a Highland distillery that carries its peat smoke from home, and it gives a different kind of smoke: drier, more bonfire-like and less medicinal than the west coast style.

  Beneath the smoke sits the classic Grouse profile of honey and fruit, bound together with grain whisky. The master blenders select both malt and grain casks with enough character to carry the smoke rather than vanish behind it. The brand has been owned by William Grant & Sons since July 2025.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Bonfire smoke and dry ash come through first, but honey, dried fruit and a note of toasted malt sit behind them.

  Palate

  Sweetness and smoke in the same mouthful. Vanilla and pale caramel carry it while the peat builds and lays dark chocolate and soot over the top.

  Finish

  Medium, dry and sooty with a final touch of pepper.

  Specifications

  Name: Famous Grouse Smoky Black
  Distillery: The Famous Grouse
  Region/Country: Scotland
  Type: Blended Scotch Whisky
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 70 CL
  Cask type: Oak casks
  Edition: Smoky Black
  EAN no.: 5010314302504

  Flavour profile

  Smoky · Sweet · Soft · Malty · Peaty

  Did you know?

  Glenturret has been distilling since 1763, making it the oldest continuously working distillery in Scotland. For decades it also housed The Famous Grouse Experience, where visitors walked through the story behind the blend, and where many discovered for the first time that there was a distillery behind the bird on the label at all.

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    26,75EUR
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  Famous Grouse The Black Grouse Alpha Edition No 1 Blended Scotch Whisky 70 cl 40%

  Item no.: 22227865425-16

  Alpha Edition was made for airport shelves and disappeared from them again. It is the heaviest of the Black Grouse family, the same starting point with every dial that has anything to do with smoke turned up a notch.

  The expert description

  Famous Grouse The Black Grouse Alpha Edition No 1 is a Blended Scotch Whisky made with peated malt and bottled at 40%.

  The release originally appeared as a travel retail exclusive and has since been discontinued. It builds on The Black Grouse, but where the original draws its smoke from a rare peated expression of Glenturret, Alpha Edition turns the volume up by letting peated Islay malt take up far more of the blend. The result is denser, darker and less compromising than anything else in the Grouse family.

  Behind the smoke sit the malts that have defined the brand, Highland Park among them, bound together with grain whisky. The number on the label suggests more were planned for the series, but it is the first that has held on as a collector item.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Heavy bonfire smoke and soot, with seaweed and a touch of iodine underneath. The honey sweetness is still there, but you have to look for it.

  Palate

  Powerful and oily. Peat smoke, dark chocolate and toasted malt, while a syrupy sweetness holds the whole thing together.

  Finish

  Long, dry and ashy with pepper and a final salted note.

  Specifications

  Name: The Black Grouse Alpha Edition No 1
  Distillery: The Famous Grouse
  Region/Country: Scotland
  Type: Blended Scotch Whisky
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 70 CL
  Edition: Alpha Edition No 1
  EAN no.: 5010314095000

  Flavour profile

  Smoky · Peaty · Maritime · Sweet · Spiced

  Investment potential

  Medium. The release is discontinued, was only ever sold in travel retail and will not be made again. It is also the heaviest bottling the brand has produced, which makes it interesting for anyone collecting the Grouse family in full.

  Did you know?

  Travel retail has been the whisky industry laboratory for decades. Because airport shelves sit outside the ordinary distribution chain, producers could try heavier and stranger expressions there without risking the brand at home, and a number of the ones that worked later reached the regular trade.

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  • 1pcs.
    160,75EUR