Description
YE WHISKY OF YE MONKS DE LUXE 75CL
A curious old whisky features on the label of one of Diageo’s eccentric blends. Donald Fisher Ltd, an Edinburgh whisky firm, created it about 400 years after the first written record of whisky distillation in Scotland.
This record shows Friar John Cor from Fife received permission from the King in the Exchequer Roll of 1494. He was allowed to make ‘acquavitae’ or the ‘water of life’ from ‘eight bolls of malt’.
The link between this historic permission and Fisher’s blend is unclear. Still, the whisky remains popular in Latin America and the Far East. By 2012, global sales had reached around 50,000 cases. Collectors now seek stoneware jars of the whisky sealed with wax.
