There is arguably no other name more deeply associated with Scottish whisky than Glenlivet. Due to its geographically seductive location and famed association with royalty through the years many other distilleries have latched onto the Glenlivet bandwagon throughout the last century.

It was not until the 1980s that Glenlivet was able to finally stop other companies using their name on their labels and reclaim it as solely their own. These days it is one of the most recognisable whisky brands in the world and is constantly vying with Glenfiddich for global malt domination. However at the heart of all this lies one of the truly classical Speysiders, a distillate with elegance and charm that is all too easy to be snobbish about and overlook.