Scotch Whisky Review: Tomintoul-Glenlivet 'Perfume Bottle' 1970s

Scotch Whisky Review: Tomintoul-Glenlivet 'Perfume Bottle' 1970s

A vintage 1970s bottling from Tomintoul – this expression was first launched in 1974 and is known for a distinctive cylindrical fluted ‘perfume’ style bottle with large silver screw top.

Whiskey in the Ruins - Catholic Insight

This first day of June, is apparently is the anniversary of the invention of Scotch whiskey – Gaelic for aqua vitae – the water of life – which is what the Tironesian monk John Cor at Lindores Abbey outside of Fife first called the distilled malt liquor he had concocted in 1495. As the Latin entry has it in the Exchequer Rolls:  Fratri Johanni Cor…de mandato domini regis ad faciendum aquavite, infra hoc compotum viij bolle brasii Which may be tr…