Dewar's 12 Year Old The Ancestor Double Aged

Established by John Dewar in 1846, Dewar’s is one of Scotland’s best-known and most-awarded blending houses, and it is innovation that has driven the company’s reputation for more than 150 years. And that reputation is an impressive one: Dewar's blended Scotch whisky has amassed more than a thousand awards in its century-and-a-half.

Ageing has always been at the heart of the Dewar's philosophy, and the people behind the whisky pride themselves on the fact that every expression that bears the Dewar's name also bears an age statement.

In 1896 the sons of John Dewar planned to build a distillery to ensure they always had a core for their sought-after blended whiskies. They settled on a site just outside the village of Aberfeldy, from which the distillery would take its name. The site had excellent access to water from the Pitilie Burn and excellent transport links to nearby Perth plus, on a more sentimental note, it was just three miles from where John Dewar was born.

Production began in 1898, and since then Aberfeldy has not only gained a place as the heart of the Dewar’s blends, but is also a much-loved single malt in its own right.