Murray McDavid
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Murray McDavid is a bottler of Scotch whisky, offering a range of whisky from vintage single malts and grains to blended malts.
History
Murray McDavid was established in 1996 by Mark Reynier, Simon Coughlin, and Gordon Wright (who had previously been a director at
ACE (Additional Cask Enhancement, a term coined at Murray McDavid), often referred to as 'wood finishing' or just 'finishing', is a process of maturing whiskies for a relatively brief period of time, following proper maturation, in selected casks that previously held wines or spirits other than the original casks. For example, a whisky can undergo a several-year maturation in an ex-bourbon cask, after which it is transferred to an ex-wine (ex-sherry, ex-madeira, ex-rum, etc.) to enhance its flavor profile. Hence 'enhancement'. More recently, they have been using, among others, fresh, first-fill ex-bourbon casks to 'enhance' (or finish) their whiskies, notably from the Koval Distillery in Chicago.
Murray McDavid products
Murray McDavid mature, select and bottle six main lines of whiskies. These include:
Mission Gold - the oldest single malt whiskies,
Benchmark - the core range of mature single malts,
Mystery Malt - single malt whiskies whose provenance is no more than vaguely hinted at, to puzzle and entertain a curious whisky buff,
Select Grain - a range of single grain whiskies,
The Vatting - blended malt whiskies (vatting of two or more single malt whiskies),
Crafted Blend - blended whiskies (vatting of single malt and single grain whiskies).
Murray McDavid is currently based at the disused Coleburn Distillery in the Scotch whisky-producing region of Speyside, where a lot of its casked whiskies mature under bond in a traditional, dunnage warehouse. Murray McDavid whiskies are released in strictly limited editions, often single-cask.
References
- ^ "Bruichladdich and Rémy Cointreau Reach Agreement". Bruichladdich Distillery Company Limited. Archived from the original on 2012-07-26. Retrieved 2013-08-27.
- ^ "Independent Whisky Bottler Murray McDavid is sold to Aceo Ltd". Bruichladdich Distillery Company Limited. Retrieved 2013-08-27.