Cutty Sark (whisky)

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Cutty Sark

Type	Scotch Whisky
Proof	80
Manufacturer	Berry Brothers & Rudd
Country of origin	Scotland
Introduced	March 20, 1923

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 super 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 Lords of Discipline by the American contemporary author Pat Conroy. The patriarch of the St.Croix family, Commerce St. Croix, is portrayed as spending countless evenings drinking Cutty Sark on the porch of his Charleston Mansion.

Cutty Sark is featured in the novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 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.

Cutty Sark is also mentioned in Stephen King's novel "Skeleton Crew" in one of the short stories.

The Lieutenant in the Norwegian 1972 movie Olsenbanden tar gull is seen sitting on the porch of the barracks, drinking Cutty Sark.

In GoodFellas, Tommy asks for a "Cutty and water" and Jimmy is also seen stealing boxes of Cutty-Sark whisky. Cutty Sark is also mentioned in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull.

In The Associate, Whoopi Goldberg's character "Laurel Ayres" chooses the white male pseudonym 'Robert Cutty' after seeing a bottle of Cutty Sark whisky.

In a second-season episode of Will & Grace ("Tea and a Total Lack of Sympathy"), alcoholic character Karen Walker indicates her affinity for Cutty Sark.^{[citation needed]}

Cutty Sark was a favorite beverage of President Lyndon B. Johnson. While traveling overseas as Vice President, Johnson brought dozens of cases with him on his trips. [1]

In the Film Mother, Jugs and Speed, in the bar scene shared by Speed (Harvey Keitel) and Jugs (Raquel Welch), Speed orders "Cutty and Water" prior to sitting down with Jugs.

On the album That Nigger's Crazy, Richard Pryor makes reference talking about people and funny drink orders "let me get a Cutty and orange juice, with a coke on the side."

Cutty Sark was also featured in the FX comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It's in every episode and is drunk by the main characters in their bar.