Cutty Sark (whisky)

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Cutty Sark is a range of blended Scotch whiskies, owned by Berry Brothers & Rudd, the London wine and spirits merchant. The whisky was created on March 20, 1923, with the home of the blend considered to be at Glenrothes distillery, in the Scottish Highlands. The name comes from the River Clyde-built clipper ship Cutty Sark, whose name came from the Scots language term cutty-sark.

The Tall Ships' Races were for long known as the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races under the terms of sponsorship by the brand.

[edit] Bottlings

The most popular member of the range, Cutty Sark Original Scots Whisky, is in a distinctive green bottle with a yellow label.

The range also includes superior and premium blends, currently identified by the age (of the youngest whisky in the blend) as 12 years old, 18 year old, and 25 year old.

[edit] Popular References

Cutty Sark is featured in the novel 'The Wind Up Bird Chronicles' by Japanese contemporary author Haruki Murakami. It is involved in both negative and positive capacities, used as a good example of wealth and sophistication but also as an unethical tool for the character Noboru Wataya