History of Independent Bottling

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Murray McDavid are Independent Bottlers with a difference.  The tradition of independent bottling goes back 150 years and was, until fairly recently, the only source for many of Scotland's finest malts.  The practice of distillers bottling their own malts started in the 60s, but only became a major event in the last few years.  Independent bottlers offer the consumer many things.  they offer the opportunity to taste some of the more esoteric malts not bottled by their owners.  They offer the chance to try well known and widely available brands at a different age, a different strength, possibly even a different type of barrel than the distillery bottled product.

Many independent bottling companies bottle a huge variety of malts just because they exist and are available for bottling.  Murray McDavid has a different policy.  The selection of casks is of prime importance and great care is taken to find the finest available.  Murray McDavid only selects for bottling those casks that they feel represent the best the distillery can produce.