Putachieside 21 Year Old, 50.8%

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The lost history behind Putachieside. Before Union Street and New Market Street existed, there was a tiny Aberdeen neighbourhood called Putachieside, tucked away in what’s now known as Carnegie’s Brae. That’s where Wm Cadenhead Ltd set up shop in the early Victorian era. In 1904, Robert Duthie took over the company and created the Putachieside blend, naming it after that very street.

The label even features an etching of the old area, including the historic Wallace Tower. The area itself was cleared away in the 1840s to make room for the city’s new streets. But the name lived on in the whisky. J. & A. Mitchell Ltd (Campbeltown) bought the company in 1972 and kept producing Putachieside for a while, before it was eventually discontinued in the late 1990s. A blend named after a street that no longer exists https://whiskywednesdays.substack.com/

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