Annandale 2015-2022 - 7 Year Old - North Star Spirits - Cask Series 021 - Single Cask

The original Annandale distillery in Dumfriesshire in the Lowlands opened in the 1830s, was bought by John Walker & Sons in 1895 and closed down in 1918. The distillery buildings were used to dry porridge oats for the next 90 years or so, but a £10m restoration and refurbishment began after the site was bought by Professor David Thomson and his wife Teresa Church in 2007. Distillation started in 2014 and the first official Annandale whisky was released at the end of 2017.

The new Annandale distillery has three stills but practises double distillation, splitting the output of the wash still between two small spirit stills.  Annandale makes both unpeated and heavily-peated Lowland malt whisky - the unpeated spirit is bottled as Annandale Man O’Words, while the peated whisky is Annadale Man O’Sword.

North Star Spirits is an independent whisky bottling company founded in Glasgow in 2016 by AD Rattray alumnus Iain Croucher. North Star quickly established itself as one of the most popular of the recent wave of Scottish independent whisky bottlers thanks to a prolific series of top class whiskies released in eye-catching packaging at sensible prices. North Star Spirits was named Independent Bottler of the Year at the Scottish Whisky Awards in 2020 and 2021.

Besides their excellent single cask and small batch single malt releases, which are bottled without colouring or chill filtration and are usually at cask strength, North Star have also released several outstanding blended malt and blended Scotch whiskies alongside occasional bottlings of rum, gin, bourbon and Pedro Ximenez fortified wine.