Scottish Oak News Today

Scotland’s whisky making house Whyte and Mackay recently announced that every distillery in its collection has now been incorporated into the company’s Scottish Oak Program.

Fettercairn Distillery manager Stewart Walker tells Food Manufacture about his lifelong association with the manufacturer and the brand’s progressive approach to whisky making that has been 200 years in the making.

The Dalmore recently partnered with V&A Dundee, Scotland's design museum, on a series of new high end whiskies housed in sculptures designed by Kengo Kuma, the museum’s globally acclaimed architect. One of these is set for auction at Sotheby's.

Of the various types of woods used to age and finish Scotch whisky, perhaps one of the rarest is locally sourced Scottish Oak. Fettercairn is one distillery to undertake using it.

IN A stunning example of thinking well ahead. the Fettercairn Distillery has been busy planting young oak trees nearby, with the intention that at…