Product description
White Horse Whiskey, blended by James Logan Mackie, debuted in the 1880s.
Mackie owned Lagavulin on Islay at the time, and the original blend was built around it. The whisky takes its name from the White Horse Inn in Edinburgh, which had been in the Mackie family since the mid-17th century. The bottle shown here is from the 1960s and contains whisky blended with a generous portion of Lagavulin, probably Caol Ili, Craigellachie and Cragganmore, and perhaps Malt Mill, which shared the property with Lagavulin until 1960. Up until the mid-1980s, White Horse was blended from whiskies as young as 15 years old, which is why the old editions are sought after by collectors today.
Nose : smoke and ashes, sea salt and seaweed, black pepper, licorice, a hint of juniper berries, leather, a dusty antique shop and a trace of shoe polish.
Taste: strongly peated, salted nuts, bitter oranges, green olives in brine, pepper, licorice, a hint of vanilla and marzipan and a drop of tar.
Finish: long, lots of smoke and salt, some pepper, licorice and dried herbs.