Single malt whiskies with fictitious names - Post by Whisky Magazine

In most cases, the name of a single malt whisky is identical to the distillery name. GlenDronach is produced at GlenDronach, and Laphroaig is produced at Laphroaig.

It makes sense, of course, but sometimes you can come across single malt whiskies with fictitious names. There can be several reasons for this.

In many cases, private bottlers have purchased a certain amount of whisky from a producer with the clause that the distillery name cannot be used when the whisky is bottled and sold. In this case, you are simply forced to invent a name for the whisky. The bottler will typically register and own the fictitious name and can then purchase whisky from another producer at a later date and bottle it under the same fictitious name. In other cases, a distillery may produce several different styles. This is the case, for example, at Springbank, where in addition to the traditional Springbank, they also produce a triple distilled whisky called Hazelburn and a smoked whisky called Longrow. Both are named after distilleries that have long since closed down. In a few cases, the owners of a distillery choose to give the whisky a different name than the distillery. One example is the whisky Glen Deveron - or in newer bottlings The Deveron - which is produced at the distillery Macduff in the Scottish Highlands. Owned by John Dewar & Sons (Barcardi), they have always chosen to name their official distillery bottlings from the Macduff distillery after the River Deveron, which flows into the North Sea close to the distillery on the coast of the Moray Firth. If you were to find a single malt using the name Macduff, it would be from private bottlers. Another example is the distillery Knockdhu, from which the bottlings are called 'anCnoc'. Diageo has also chosen to use fictitious names for some of their distillery bottlings. For example, the whisky "The Singleton " is a single malt, where the whisky can be produced at either Glendullan, Dufftown or Glen Ord. Despite the many fictitious names, a single malt is and remains a single malt if the whisky is produced at a single distillery, and it will always appear on the label.

Scarabus - Islay Single Malt
A very recent example from a private bottler is Scarabus from Hunter Laing & Co. It is a Islay Single Malt. In other words, whisky from only one of the nine distilleries operating on Islay. You can start to guess where the whisky is produced? It is not possible that the whisky is produced at the new Ardnahoe - owned by Hunter Laing & Co. - as the whisky from here is not yet three years old. That leaves eight possibilities, and in theory, the whisky could have been produced at any one of these. In practice, we know that Hunter Laing & Co. has a long-standing and close collaboration with Diageo, which leaves only two possibilities if the whisky was purchased from Diageo, namely the distilleries Caol Ila and Lagavulin. We can only recommend that you taste this magnificent single malt from Islay. Then you can try to guess where it was produced. Good, it certainly is. If you're a fan of young and smoky Islay, you'll definitely like it. We can also reveal that we are currently working on several versions of Scarabus, which will be presented shortly.

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