Distillery
Royal Brackla
Captain William Fraser built Royal Brackla in 1812 on the Cawdor estate, in the Highland country near Nairn in Scotland. The son of a tenant farmer, he grew his own barley and ran things his own way. Pure local spring water still feeds the distillery today. The whisky leans rich and fruity, shaped by a long commitment to sherry cask maturation. Expect orchard fruit, toffee, spice and chocolate rather than smoke. It is a fuller, sweeter style of Highland malt, now made under Bacardi's John Dewar & Sons. Its claim to fame is genuinely royal. In 1833 King William IV granted it a royal warrant, the first ever given to a Scotch whisky. The distillery added the prefix Royal and earned the nickname The King's Own Whisky.
