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Stewarts Cream Of The Barley Rare Selected Blended Scotch Whisky, distilled, blended and bottled by Stewart & Son of Dundee Limited in 1990s, Branded Jug by Seton Pottery, Ice Bucket and Set of Playing Cards.

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Stewarts Cream Of The Barley Rare Selected Blended Scotch Whisky, distilled, blended and bottled by Stewart & Son of Dundee Limited.

A classic blended Scotch whisky, with a history that reaches far back into the 1800s.

Stewart's is a brand of blended whisky from Highland and Speyside malt and grain spirits married together in oak. Starting with the blending firm J & G Stewart Ltd, the company stretches back to 1779 and before Prohibition, the blend was popular in the US: apparently it was a favourite of J.P. Morgan who had a cellar full of bottlings of the brand. Since 1986 when Guinness took over DCL, Stewart's was blended by the Whyte & Mackay master blender Richard Paterson. 

Stewarts Cream of the Barley blended whisky was first produced in 1825 by Stewart & Sons of Dundee. It is produced at the Glencadam distillery, pride of Stewarts of Dundee using a specially selected range of 50 Highland and Islay single malt whiskies including sparing quantities of the Glencadam malt. These are carefully balanced with choice grain whiskies to make Cream of the Barley a truly distinctive blend.

Although now a non-trading company in the ownership of Pernod Ricard, Stewart’s is best known for its Cream of the Barley blended Scotch brand.

During the 18th and early 19th centuries the east coast city of Dundee was almost as well known for its whisky blending activities as Glasgow, Edinburgh and Perth. One of the highest profile Dundee blenders was Stewart & Son, established in 1831 by Alexander Stewart, initially trading from the Glengarry Inn on the city’s Castle Street.

The business was incorporated as a limited company in 1924 and became part of the Allied Breweries group in 1969. Stewart’s operated a bottling hall on Dundee’s Kingsway East until the 1990s, and since 2005 the company and the Cream of the Barley blend has been in the ownership of Pernod Ricard subsidiary Chivas Brothers Ltd.