A rare 1 litre bottle of Aberlour, matured in specially selected oloroso sherry casks for 12 years. Old style 1990’s bottling.

The Aberlour Distillery is situated at the confluence of the Lour and Spey Rivers in Strathspey. This wild mountain stream cascades down over mossy waterfalls through wooded glens creating a constant chattering, which the Scotch is named after. Aberlour, in Gaelic, means 'the mouth of the chattering burn' and it is this specific spot that has attracted human settlement since the Stone Age. Believing the water to have healing powers, the druid priests of the ancient Celts were probably the first to use it for distilling alcohol, for the elixirs they dispensed in their ‘hospital’ at Aberlour.

In 1879 James Fleming, a grain dealer and son of a local tenant, founded the Aberlour Distillery. Fleming found the water from the river to be exceptionally pure and soft from its journey over the granite in the mountains and utilized this to create an exceptionally smooth whisky. A daring modernist, he spared no expense building the distillery and personally supervised every detail of its design and construction, creating what would soon be hailed as 'the perfect model distillery'. In 1898, a fire consumed much of Aberlour Distillery and its inventory of whisky. Following its destruction, the distillery was rebuilt under the supervision of Charles Doig - Scotland's foremost expert of whisky distilleries at the time. While the composition of the distillery and its equipment has inevitably been altered over the past century, Aberlour's commitment to traditional craftsmanship and quality single malt whisky has remain unchanged.

Aberlour Single Malt Whisky is made exclusively from Scottish barley mashed with water drawn from St. Drostan's Well, which has been the distillery's source for water for over a century, and was named after a missionary who used water from the well to baptise inhabitants in 580 AD.

This picturesque Speyside distillery became the first distillery in the S. Campbell & Son portfolio when they acquired it in 1945, and produced fillings for their popular Clan Campbell and White Heather blends. Production capacity was increased to meet rising demand for its spirit in 1973, and the following year the company was bought over by Pernod-Ricard who operated it under the Campbell Distillers before merging it with Chivas Brothers, which they acquired from Seagram in 2001. The reverence for the sherry-casked A'Bunadh, launched in 1997, has greatly boosted the popularity of the distillery, and its output from all eras is increasingly sought after.