A 2000 vintage Aultmore. This was bottled two years after Diageo sold the owning company of the distillery to Bacardi in a deal worth more than £1bn. 

Distilled in 2000 and aged in a combination of American hogsheads and Sherry hogsheads until 2014, when it was bottled by Gordon & Macphail as part of their Connoisseurs Choice range.

Aultmore distillery was procured by John Dewar & Sons in 1925. So key is it to their blends, that it has been part of their outfit ever since, and has rarely been bottled as an official single malt. United Distillers included in the Flora & Fauna range of the 1990s, but it was not until after Bacardi acquired Dewar's in 1998 that the distillery's excellent spirit was rewarded with its own fully fledged single malt brand. Thankfully, casks have always been made available for independent bottlings like this.