Symington’s Blend 10 years – 46%

As an independent bottler of a wide range of Scotch whiskies, Signatory has been distributing exclusive cask bottlings under its own name since 1988, giving many fans access to brands that do not release bottlings under their own logo. The company’s own cask warehouse, with well over 10,000 casks, still contains a stock of bottlings from some distilleries that have either already closed or have enjoyed such popularity for years that they no longer release casks to independent bottlers. Some such distilleries have had such strong demand from whisky enthusiasts for a number of years that many bottlings are now released without an age statement, as the old stock often simply does not have the required capacity. Signatory is different: every bottling contains information about the distillation and bottling date, the cask and bottle number, the type of cask and whether it has been chill-filtered. All bottlings are always the same colour and have not been added with sugar couleur. Some bottlings do not consist of just one cask, but of a marriage of two casks, sometimes even three or four. The barrels are selected by hand and bottled in the company’s own bottling plant.