As soon as you look beyond the whiskies released by distilleries, there’s a whole new world out there – the world of independent bottlers .
Distilleries don’t own every cask of whisky hidden in the warehouses of Scotland. They might make the spirit, but as soon as it leaves the still, all bets are off. Distillers swap and sell both new spirit and casks of mature whisky, and behind the scenes there is a network of brokers who keep the whole process running.
The end result is that there are lots of other whisky companies out there, independent of the distilleries who made the...
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