Murray McDavid
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Opgericht: 1996
Land: Schotland
Website: http://www.murray-mcdavid.com/
Murray McDavid is a relatively recent actor in the world of whisky independent bottling. Unlike many other bottlers, Murray McDavid has no blenders tradition, bottling only single malts instead of blends .
The company was founded by Mark Reynier, Simon Coughlin and Gordon Wright
(the latter being a member of the family owning Springbank) in 1996. The company is named after Mark Reynier's grand parents, Harriet Murray and Jock McDavid, aide-de-camp of Winston Churchill during WW1.
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The philosophy is largely inspired by the traditions from the top-of-the-range wine world. Mark Reynier a third generation wine merchant, uses several aspects from the wine world in the preparation of their bottlings, for example always tasting each cask, creating an assemblage of several casks from the same distillation for maximal complexity.
Murray McDavid represents a particular trend in the world of independent bottlers, due to the wine traditions inherited by its managers. Great respect for tradition and a constant search for quality. Unlike many others, they never bottle a "single cask", arguing that these kind of bottlings never guarantee a constant quality, are unrepresentative, and often out of balance.
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