Rascally Liquor® takes Difford’s Guide by storm

Rascally Liquor® takes Difford’s Guide by storm.

Both peated and unpeated expressions of the clear malt spirit from Annandale Distillery have scored 5 stars in a review and tasting on Difford’s Guide. The peated variant scored even higher with a 5 stars PLUS rating.

Writing for the renowned drinks website, Difford describes both expressions as ‘attractive’ with ‘good bready maltiness and pleasing ripe pear fruity notes’, and goes further to suggest the smoky drink is ‘so tasty that it almost seems too good to age’, and that it makes for a ‘very interesting cocktail ingredient’.

The ratings support Annandale Distillery’s ambition to develop the clear malt spirit category as a drink of choice for discerning spirits explorers. Clear malt spirit (known by those in the whisky community as ‘new make’ malt spirit) is less well known than Scotland’s cask-aged export due to variation in quality and a lack of understanding from consumers – something Rascally Liquor® will begin to address in the coming months.

The independently owned distillery, located a short drive from Dumfries in Annan, is keen to ramp up distribution of the spirit, currently only sold through its websites and retail shop, by partnering with Scottish hotels, bars and produce outlets.