On Friday, the Swedish distillery Box issued a press release (in Swedish). The gist of it is: Box Distillery and Box single Maltwhisky will change names during the course of 2018. The new name of the distillery will be High Coast Distillery, and their whiskies will be called High Coast single Maltwhisky.
Now, for those who know their whisky history, changes in names are neither new nor particularly rare. Witness Brora which for most of its life was called Clynelish, or Glenesk/Hillside, or how Glengoyne was Burnfoot in its infancy. (A funny modern example only concerns spelling, with...
