The Famous Grouse blend was conceived by a Perth based grocer and drinks merchant named Matthew Gloag. In 1860, his son, William Gloag assumed control of his father’s company and started blending whisky. It was in 1896 that William’s son, named Matthew for his grandfather, controlled operations, creating the Grouse brand in 1897. During the early 20th century, blended whisky was a very popular product and the Famous Grouse went from strength to strength.
Today, the Famous Grouse is the second best-selling blended Scotch whisky in the UK and the 32nd biggest drinks brand worldwide. Furthermore, it is heralded as Scotland’s favourite drink. The blend is made up of noteworthy components; whisky from The Macallan, The Glenrothes and Highland Park are included, though 65% of the spirit content is made up of grain whisky.
The Famous Grouse is also notable for being the first blending company to release a cask finished blended whisky. The company founded The Famous Grouse Experience at the Glenturret distillery and the experience is as much a museum for whisky distillation as it is about the Grouse brand.
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This Famous Grouse blend is made from 100% Scotch Whiskies including the Edrington-owned Highland Park and The Macallan.
Famous Grouse blended scotch whisky was first produced by Matthew Gloag & Son Ltd in 1896, and is currently produced and owned by The Edrington Group.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Bright golden amber.
Nose: Vanilla sponge, black cherry, dried fruit, caramel, toasted oak, soft spice and gentle sherry sweetness.
Palate: Smooth and rounded, with caramelised pear, vanilla, cedar wood, dried fruit, cinnamon, nutmeg, bourbon sweetness and soft oak.
Finish: Medium and warming, with lingering spice, vanilla, dried fruit, oak sweetness and gentle sherry depth.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep golden amber.
Nose: Christmas cake, dried fruits, orange peel, honeyed malt, caramel, soft oak, chocolate and gentle spice.
Palate: Smooth and rounded, with raisins, dates, figs, caramel, dark chocolate, malt sweetness, nutmeg, soft smoke and polished oak.
Finish: Medium-long and warming, with lingering dried fruit, melted dark chocolate, gentle spice, soft oak and mellow smoky sweetness.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Golden amber.
Nose: Soft malt, orchard fruit, light caramel, vanilla, gentle spice and subtle oak.
Palate: Smooth and mellow, with malt sweetness, apple, pear, caramel, vanilla, soft grain and light oak spice.
Finish: Medium and gentle, with lingering sweetness, soft spice, mellow oak and classic blended Scotch warmth.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Golden amber.
Nose: Light malt, orchard fruit, soft caramel, vanilla, gentle spice and subtle oak.
Palate: Smooth and balanced, with malt sweetness, caramel, apple, vanilla, light spice and soft oak warmth.
Finish: Medium and mellow, with lingering sweetness, gentle spice, soft oak and smooth blended Scotch character.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Golden amber.
Nose: Light malt, orchard fruit, soft caramel, vanilla, gentle spice and subtle oak.
Palate: Smooth and balanced, with malt sweetness, caramel, apple, vanilla, light spice and soft oak warmth.
Finish: Medium and mellow, with lingering sweetness, gentle spice, soft oak and smooth blended Scotch character.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep golden amber.
Nose: Rich citrus, pineapple, dried fruit, cedar wood, honeyed malt, fruitcake, dark chocolate and gentle spice.
Palate: Smooth and complex, with figs, mixed peel, fruitcake, polished oak, chocolate, spice, mellow malt and soft sweetness.
Finish: Long and warming, with lingering citrus peel, cedar oak, dried fruit, spice and elegant mature sweetness.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Bright russet amber.
Nose: Rich citrus, pineapple, dried fruit, cedar wood, honeyed malt, fruitcake, dark chocolate and gentle spice.
Palate: Smooth and complex, with figs, mixed peel, fruitcake, polished oak, chocolate, spice, mellow malt and soft sweetness.
Finish: Long and warming, with lingering citrus peel, cedar oak, dried fruit, spice and elegant mature sweetness.
A great top of the range Famous Grouse, a really enjoyable 30 year old blended malt.
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Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep golden amber.
Nose: Rich malt, citrus peel, pineapple, dried fruit, toffee, cedar wood, dark chocolate and gentle spice.
Palate: Smooth and complex, with figs, fruitcake, honeyed malt, chocolate, polished oak, spice, rum sweetness and mellow dried fruit.
Finish: Long and warming, with lingering fruit, cedar oak, soft spice, dark sweetness and elegant malt depth.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Full golden amber.
Nose: Candied fruit, buttery shortbread, citrus peel, soft malt, caramel, vanilla and gentle spice.
Palate: Smooth and balanced, with malt sweetness, orchard fruit, caramel, vanilla, light spice and soft oak warmth.
Finish: Medium and mellow, with lingering sweetness, gentle spice, soft oak and smooth blended Scotch character.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Golden amber.
Nose: Light malt, orchard fruit, soft caramel, vanilla, gentle spice and subtle oak.
Palate: Smooth and balanced, with malt sweetness, caramel, apple, vanilla, light spice and soft oak warmth.
Finish: Medium and mellow, with lingering sweetness, gentle spice, soft oak and smooth blended Scotch character.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Golden amber.
Nose: Light malt, orchard fruit, candied fruit, citrus peel, soft caramel, vanilla and gentle spice.
Palate: Smooth and balanced, with malt sweetness, caramel, apple, vanilla, light spice and soft oak warmth.
Finish: Medium and mellow, with lingering sweetness, gentle spice, soft oak and smooth blended Scotch character.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Golden amber.
Nose: Light malt, orchard fruit, soft caramel, vanilla, gentle spice and subtle oak.
Palate: Smooth and balanced, with malt sweetness, caramel, apple, vanilla, light spice and soft oak warmth.
Finish: Medium and mellow, with lingering sweetness, gentle spice, soft oak and smooth blended Scotch character.
Famous Grouse Bourbon Cask was the inaugural launch within the Cask Series, designed to showcase different types of oak cask and add greater depth of flavours to the standard blend. A blend of whiskies mostly aged in American Oak and first-fill bourbon casks.
Famous Grouse Bourbon Cask was the inaugural launch within the Cask Series, designed to showcase different types of oak cask and add greater depth of flavours to the standard blend. A blend of whiskies mostly aged in American Oak and first-fill bourbon casks.
Tasting Note Aroma: complex, sweet, spicy honey, orange peel Taste: Soft and sweet, spicy with vanilla, blood oranges, slightly smoky Finish: Long, rich and spicy
Famous Grouse Highland Decanter / 100 Years Wooden Box
This attractive decanter is gilded with 24 carat gold and depicts a ‘Summer in the Highlands’ by artist Stanley Todd.
This particular example was part of a limited 500 bottle release to celebrate the Centenary of the brand.
Bottle number 197
The legendary Famous Grouse as depicted by Royal Doulton.
A ceramic decanter from Royal Doulton containing 75cl of Famous Grouse blended Scotch whisky. We estimate this was produced in the 1980s. The single malt whiskies used in The Famous Grouse blend include the Edrington-owned Highland Park and The Macallan. Its emblem is the Red Grouse, Scotland’s national game bird.
Due to the various ages or not ages of bottles and their seals, condition of liquid is at the buyer’s discretion and no claim can be lodged against failure leakage in transit.
We are unable to cover minor/cosmetic damage to the box or boxes in transit.
A bottle of Famous Grouse housed within a ceramic ‘Highland’ decanter. First blended by Matthew Gloag & Son in 1896, as of 2013, it has been the highest selling brand of whisky in Scotland since 1980.
An interesting addition to the Famous Grouse range, this was aged in first fill sherry casks, and is based around malt whisky from Highland Park and Macallan. Packaged very simply, this is a superb value-for-money blend.
Naked Malt is the new name of the Naked Grouse of the Famous Grouse brand. It was created as its own brand to add a sweet and smooth variation to the range of the Famous Grouse Whiskies. The content is the same, even with the new name: The Blended Malt includes Whiskies from Glenturret, Highland Park and Macallan.
First Fill Oloroso sherry cask.
Naked Grouse was first introduced to The Edrington Groups Famous Grouse whisky portfolio (if memory serves me right) around 2011, it was originally launched as a premium sherry rich Scotch Blended Whisky containing a blend of grain and single malt whiskies including two of Edrington’s most renowned single malts, Highland Park and The Macallan.
At that time the new sherry rich Naked Grouse with its first fill sherry cask influence represented quite a significant departure from the usual style of Scotch blended whiskies, but one which caught the interest of normally devout single malt whisky drinkers.
In 2017, Edrington took the Naked Grouse out of The Famous Grouse portfolio and relaunched it as a standalone brand with a very different flavour and personality than its predecessor, the grain whisky had now been removed from the blend and it was now a Blended Malt, containing amongst others, single malts from Edrington’s Highland Park, The Macallan and The Glenrothes distilleries.
The single malts were blended together by Edrington’s Master Blender and then added to the first-fill sherry casks to further marry and mature for at least a further six months, the whisky then went through a final chill-filter before bottling.
The result was Naked Grouse, now a sherry rich Scotch Blended Malt with a buttery toffee scent on the nose which is malty and reminiscent of orchard fruits. On the palate sultanas, rich fudge and cooked apples come through, followed by a finish of soft spice and toasted oak.
Now 2021, Edrington have rebranded Naked Grouse as Naked Malt, which makes sense really as they had already taken it out the The Famous Grouse portfolio back in 2017 although it still carried the Grouse name until now.
There has been no change to the whisky you will find in the bottle with this latest rebranding, it is simply a new name, Naked Malt, which will be presented with a new contemporary look.
Diane Stuart, Naked Malt Master Blender, commented: “Naked Malt is blended using some of the finest Scottish single malts, each selected for its quality and individual flavour. Every cask of Single Malt Scotch whisky selected for our blend is nosed to ensure it meets our exacting standard.
“By extra maturing Naked Malt in first-fill Oloroso sherry casks, we deliver quality and intensity of flavour enviable in the contemporary whisky category. We create the perfect balance of sweet, fruity character from the American oak with the rich, dried fruit and spicy notes from the European oak to produce Naked Malts signature flavour. But what matters most is that you enjoy it whichever way you like.”
A bottle of The Famous Grouse Finest Scotch Whisky. This has a personalised label, dated 2009.
This bottle was part of a private collection – if you’d like more detailed photos just get in touch!
The Famous Grouse blended Scotch whisky, which has been allowed to marry in specially selected Port casks, a variation on the classic recipe that really comes through on the finish with notes of dark red fruits.
Ruby Cask is the second expression of The Famous Grouse’s Cask Series, which has been finished in Port-seasoned oak barrels. A soft and spicy twist on the classic blended Scotch with notes of dark fruits.
The Famous Grouse Sherry Cask Finish has aromas of cocoa, sherry, cherries and light oak. Sweet on the tongue by the Sherry tones, herbs and some fruit. The aftertaste is full of flavor with notes of chocolate and spices.
Speyside malts were matured in Sherry-seasoned, European oak casks to craft Famous Grouse Sherry Cask Finish. The blend has been in development for two years.
Sanele Gwala, global senior brand manager at The Famous Grouse, explained: “This new, revived blend is finished in Sherry casks and butts seasoned in the region of Jerez, Spain. The aim was to create a blend that is slightly sweeter but still in keeping with the smooth and distinct DNA of classic Grouse.
“Once the blend is in its final stages of maturation, which involves the meticulous combination of hand selected malt and grain whiskies, The Famous Grouse master blender does not stop there; the full blend is married in ex-Sherry casks to further enhance their sweet, rich, and smooth characters.
“The Sherry Cask Finish is a decadent blend of festive flavours including chocolate, almonds, dried fruits, and sweet spices.”
The packaging pays tribute to the Spanish female capercaillie bird, part of the grouse family. This particular bird was chosen for its link to the product’s Spanish Sherry heritage, as well as its orange and red plumage, which ‘echoes the deep amber’ of the liquid.
The Famous Grouse Smoky Black (previously The Black Grouse) blends more peated malt whiskies, including a rare version of Glenturret, with exceptional grain whiskies to produce a richer, lightly smoky and smooth flavour. Explore a smokier side to our Famous whisky.
This is a premium blended malt produced from whiskies distilled in 1987 and bottled at 12 years old.
This is bottling of Famous Grouse – 1987 Vintage, which was released following the success of the 1986 vintage. This vatted malt from Famous Grouse includes Highland Park and Macallan.
This bottle was part of a private collection – if you’d like more detailed photos just get in touch!
A 12 year old vintage malt from the iconic Famous Grouse brand, containing whiskies from six different distilleries, mostly Macallan and Highland Park alongside Glenrothes, Tamdhu, Glengoyne and Bunnahabhain, all distilled in 1989.
Please note rusting to tin lid.
A rather interesting release from The Famous Grouse back in 2004, made with a blend of malt whiskies distilled in 1992.
Following the success of the 1989 vintage comes this new vatted malt from Famous Grouse. A big step up in quality from the standard blend, with Highland Park and Macallan again featuring in the mix.
A one litre bottle of Famous Grouse Winter Reserve, which was, as expected, a limited winter release unveiled at the tail end of 2018. The blend features a good helping of malt whiskies aged in sherry casks, imparting a classic spicy sherried character that’ll be sure to warm your cockles during the cold months. There’s even a seasonal snow grouse on the bottle to keep you company.
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