Ainslie's King's Legend Finest Scotch Whiskey / 43%/ 0.75l

Ainslie's is a now-forgotten whisky brand whose production ceased in the 1980s.

John Ainslie & Co. was founded in Edinburgh in 1868 to import and distribute wines and spirits. The company was very successful and in 1896 it bought the Clynelish Distillery, which it renovated and refitted. The turn of the century, and particularly the collapse of Pattison's Ltd, brought it to the brink of bankruptcy and forced it to sell Clynelish. The company concentrated on blended whisky production and, together with several producers, formed Ainslie, Baille & Co. of Leith. In 1921, following the death of the founder's son Robert Ainslie, the company was taken over by James Calder and with two partners formed Ainslie & Heilbron (Distillers) Ltd, which a few years later became part of DCL.

Ainslie's Whisky debuted in the late 1930s and remained in the DCL portfolio until the late 1980s. In the following decade, it was owned by the Belgian company P. Grubbeman, which in turn was taken over in 2009 by the French company La Martiniquaise. The rights to the brand are still owned by P. Grubbeman, but it is not currently produced.

Ainslie's Whisky has been released in several versions: Ainslie's Royal Edinburgh, Ainslie's Choice, The real McTavish and the Ainslie's King's Choice presented here. All we know is that the key to the formula of the latter was the single malts Clynelish and Dalwhinnie.