Alliances and joint efforts meet ruthless ambition and tough power struggles: It’s like Macbeth in the Scotch whisky industry, Lexi Livingstone Burgess realised, laying the foundation for the dramaturgy of an impressive collection of whiskies. Together with Elixir Distillers, the founder of Livingstone and Burgess Studio, known for creative design work in the field of Scotch, cast the fantastic characters of Shakespeare’s tragedy with whiskies.

From old single casks to expressive malt and grain whiskies and rarities from closed distilleries, the Macbeth Collection will bring a total of 42 individual characters to the whisky stage.

Each of the limited edition bottlings will be illustrated with the corresponding character by established artist Sir Quentin Blake, and will feature notes that whisky writer Dave Broom has wrapped in lyrical prose.

The Macbeth Collection consists of six series: The Leads (5 majestic malts), The Thanes (12 noble malts), The Ghosts (6 “ghost distilleries”), The Witches (3 malts and a blend), The Murderers (4 island malts) and The Household (10 characterful whiskies). The whiskies in the series will be released blended in three annual acts until 2025.