Whisky Focus - The Tweeddale Blend 10 Year Old

The Tweeddale Blend, a piece of whisky history resurrected.

I don't often mention blended whisky here but I thought The Tweeddale Blend 10 year old was worth bringing to your attention. Although only released not much more than a year ago it isn't the first time this blend has been produced it is a piece of whisky history that has been resurrected.

Alasdair Day the man behind the resurrection of The Tweeddale Blend is the Great Grandson of Richard Day who worked and eventually owned J & A Davidson a licensed grocers shop in Coldstream.

Like many other licensed grocers in the 19th century J & A Davidson also blended Scotch Whisky, one of these whiskies was The Tweeddale Blend.

Richard Day took over the Licensed Grocers and from 1923 the name above the shop bore his name "Richard Day". He continued to blend Scotch whisky until the start of World War II when production had to stop. The Tweeddale Blend has not been produced since.

In 2009, The Tweeddale Blend was resurrected by Richards Great Grandson Alasdair Day with the help of Richards "Cellar Book" which had been handed down through the Day family line.

As well as containing the 1881 set of accounts for J & A Davidson the Cellar Book also contained the recipe for The Tweeddale Blend from 1899 to 1916. In January 2009 Alasdair established Stonedean Limited to recreate The Tweeddale Blend using the recipes from his Grandfathers Cellar Book.

The blend is 50% grain whisky and 50% malt whisky. In keeping with the original blend it has not been chill filtered and has been bottled at 46% ABV. Each malt whisky in the blend is drawn from a single cask. The single grain whisky is 10 years old, the eight single malt whiskies range from 10 year old to 21 year old. It contains Scotch Whisky from the Lowlands, Highlands, Speyside and Islay.
 

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