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White Horse Cellar - Circa 1940s
White Horse Cellar. Bottled between 1936 - 1952. By appointment to his Majesty the King. Spring cap with branded lead foil capsule. No capacity or strength stated.
A remarkable old bottle of the White Horse blended whisky, this was bottled By Appointment to The King and is sealed with a spring cap, so was most likely bottled in the 1940s. These wonderful old White Horse bottles have remained extremely popular, not only for their beautiful aesthetic but also because the whisky inside contains copious quantities of pre-war Lagavulin (and probably Malt Mill too) and is always a brilliant dram.
White Horse is one of the classic blended Scotch whiskies. The brand’s name and famous logo come from the White Horse pub in Edinburgh, which was owned by the Mackie family from the mid-17th century until 1917. The Mackies bought Lagavulin in 1862 and the White Horse blend was introduced in 1890, the year after the legendary Peter Mackie had taken the reins of the family business.
Famously described as ‘one-third genius, one-third megalomaniac and one-third eccentric’, Peter Mackie caused a stir on Islay, famously building the Malt Mill distillery on the grounds of Lagavulin in 1908 in a fit of pique after a failed agency agreement with Laphroaig. Mackie’s business was renamed White Horse Distillers after his death in 1924 and was subsumed into Distillers Company Ltd in 1927. Sadly, White Horse is an export-only brand nowadays, but older bottles are still highly sought-after at auction.