Fettercairn Distillery closes its bicentenary with an Icon of Whisky Award for Andrew Lennie
The globally famend whisky home, Whyte and Mackay, is celebrating after Single Malt specialist Andrew Lennie was named Scotch Whisky Model Ambassador of the 12 months on the Icons of Whisky Awards 2025 following a sublime ceremony at Edinburgh’s The Signet Library.
Lennie was awarded the accolade in recognition of his work championing Fettercairn on the worldwide stage since becoming a member of the home in 2019. The Highland Single Malt, which this 12 months marked 200 years of imaginative whisky making, is legendary for its tropical home type, distinctive manufacturing strategies and its ethos for doing issues in another way and naturally.
Lennie has been instrumental in sharing Fettercairn’s enlightened strategy to whisky making all through the bicentennial 12 months. Together with, introducing refreshed collections throughout each the core and journey retail ranges and concluding with presenting the Anniversary Assortment – six exceptional Single Malts with a mixed age of 200 years housed in a phenomenal, bespoke cupboard.
Lennie feedback:
“To be recognised by Icons of Whisky, particularly in Fettercairn’s 2 hundredth Anniversary 12 months, is unbelievable. I’ve been overwhelmed by the response to this award, and to our 2 hundredth Anniversary Assortment, with six whiskies that commemorate every little thing that’s particular about Fettercairn. Thanks to everybody that has supported myself, particularly the workforce that make these whiskies at Tamnavulin, Jura and Fettercairn”
Throughout the night time, Whyte and Mackay’s beachside distillery, Jura, additionally took house a trio of medals within the World Whiskies Awards Scotland.
Most notably, Jura 14 12 months Previous American Rye was a triumph with judges, claiming a Gold medal within the Single Malt Islands (non-Islay) class due to its end in hand-select Rye barrels, including depth and complexity to Jura’s fruity, fragrant and coastal home type.
The award is a tribute to Jura’s vibrant, neighborhood spirit. Nestled off Scotland’s West Coast, Jura’s Distillery has turn into the beating coronary heart of the neighborhood because it reopened its doorways 60 years in the past. With fewer than 250 residents, the island of Jura and its neighborhood form each bottle of whisky – as we speak the UK’s #1 Single Malt[1].
The spectacular assortment of awards additional solidifies Whyte and Mackay’s place as a driving drive in whisky and residential to multi-award-winning Single Malts, together with The Dalmore and Tamnavulin.
Award-Successful Whisky Makers Whyte and Mackay
Whyte and Mackay is house to a group of multi-award-winning Single Malt Whiskies together with The Dalmore, Jura and Fettercairn. With a premium spirits portfolio that features up to date whisky manufacturers Shackleton, Woodsman and John Barr, alongside fashionable alcohol manufacturers Wildcat, Fundador and Harveys Bristol Cream and Aperitivo. Within the UK the corporate produce Whyte and Mackay, an award-winning ever-popular Blended Whisky, which just lately launched the market-leading ‘Whyte and Mackay Gentle’ – a lighter spirit drink from Scotland, bottled at a decrease ABV.
In 2020 the corporate have been publicly recognised by the First Minister of Scotland for his or her assist of the nationwide pandemic response. Whyte and Mackay are official companions to SAMH – Scottish Affiliation for Psychological Well being, which noticed Whyte and Mackay staff worldwide full a virtual-race-around-the-world to boost consciousness for the charity.
Based in Glasgow 1844, the whisky makers celebrated their 175 12 months anniversary in 2019. Right now Whyte and Mackay have places of work from New York to Singapore. In Scotland, Whyte and Mackay function a state-of-the-art Bottling Corridor and Distribution Centre in Grangemouth and a Whisky Manufacturing and Warehousing Centre in Invergordon.
Whyte and Mackay’s whisky making is led by Grasp Distiller Richard Paterson OBE and pioneering Grasp Whisky Maker Gregg Glass.
[1] By quantity, Nielsen MAT 02.04.24. Additionally #1 by worth in complete UK off commerce, Nielsen MAT 02.04.24
