Independent Bottler

Cadenhead’s

The firm of William Cadenhead Limited, Wine and Spirit Merchants, was founded in 1842 and was in the ownership of the same family until it was taken over by the well known Campbeltown firm of J & A Mitchell & Co. Ltd who own Springbank Distillery. The premises were in Netherkirkgate in Aberdeen and although the street numbers were changed from time to time the premises were the same and indeed were almost unaltered during their 130 years of trading in Aberdeen.

It’s the taste that matters most to us – and we embrace the hard work

We don’t get distracted by things like the age of the whisky or whether it was distilled at a fashionable distillery. We bottle what we want, when we want and we make the decision based on taste because we care most about the quality of the dram. This does not mean it is a simple process, however, as the entire Cadenhead’s team is involved along the way – during purchasing, reracking, vatting, sampling or any of the many other steps taken to get a Cadenhead’s bottle on the shelves. Although it is very easy for us to bottle an attractive whisky from a big name distillery we also take pride in finding hidden gems from perhaps lesser known distilleries and this takes patience, knowledge and a lot of hard work.