This bottle is a 2012 edition of the Royal Lochnagar - Distillers Edition. It was double matured in fine old Muscat Cask-wood which brings a sweet floral richness to the spirit. It was distilled in the year 2000 and bottled in the year 2012. Batch RL/00-12W. 

Royal Lochnagar is so-called after it was bestowed with a Royal Warrant by Prince Albert and Queen Victoria following a visit in 1848. The popularity of the distillery’s Begg’s blend saw it acquired by John Dewar & Sons in 1916, who later became part of DCL, upping the demand for its whisky from other brands in their portfolio, including Johnnie Walker. Today it is part of Diageo, their smallest distillery by some margin, making the modest amount of its single malt spared for bottling increasingly sought after.