- Formed by Gordon Wright, Mark Reynier, and Simon Coughlin a few years ago. Gordon's family own Springbank Distillery and Cadenhead's (another independent bottler). Gordon was the sales and marketing director for nine years before starting Murray McDavid. Mark and Simon own four fine wine stores in London and specialise in Burgundy. Nine generations in the whisky business between them.
- 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 distilleries 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. All
the Single Malt Scotches are bottled without chill filtering, which
removes many of the oils that carry the flavour and complexity of the
malt. They are not coloured with caramel like many other bottlings
which gives the drinker the chance to sample the Scotch in its most
natural form. The bottling strength is 46% Alc/Vol
(92 proof) which is an ideal drinking strength, no complicated
mathematical calculations to work out how much water to add!
- The generic style of packaging allows the colour of the whisky to be clearly seen while emphasizing the Murray McDavid identity. A range of six bottlings is now available representing different regions of production. The range will change as time progresses but the quality will always remain superlative.
- McDavid family tree - Catriona McDavid is constructing a family tree based on Hugh McDavid’s decendants: catriona@McDavid.co.uk
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