Cutty Sark 25 Year Old - Blue Label

Named after the famous tea clipper, the Cutty Sark blended Scotch whisky brand was created in 1923 by posh wine & spirits merchants Berry Bros & Rudd with an eye to the export market. Smuggled supplies of Cutty Sark (to which BBR turned a blind eye) proved an enormous hit with thirsty Americans during Prohibition, and the brand later became the first Scotch whisky to sell a million cases in the US market in the 1960s.

Berry Brothers sold Cutty Sark in 2010 to Edrington, whose forerunner Robertson & Baxter had distributed the brand since the 1930s and whose Glenrothes malt whisky had been the heart of Cutty Sark for many years. BBR bought the Glenrothes brand as part of the deal, but later sold it back to Edrington, who subsequently sold Cutty Sark to French multinational La Martiniquaise in 2018.