The Maker Edradour distillery was built around 1837, but distillation got underway as part of a farmers co-operative in a nearby barn in 1825. The formation of the co-operative was a product of the recent Excise Act which required stills to be larger in an attempt to prevent distillation at the domestic scale. By joining together local communities were able to make a larger operation work, and thereby supply themselves and others with all the whisky they could drink with plen

The Maker The Octave series is from independent bottler Duncan Taylor. The story of Duncan Taylor goes back nearly 90 years to 1938 where they were founded in Glasgow as a cask brokerage. After several decades blending whiskies and exporting them around the world the company was acquired by an American named Abe Rosenberg. He then unsurprisingly focused on building that business through premiumisation (sounds familiar) by ensuring that every blend produced was made of the bes