Cask Collection
Single cask whisky is at the heart of A. D. Rattray. We go to great lengths to source interesting and unusual casks from the six traditional whisky regions of Scotland. Each distillery represented is different and every cask is unique.
We curate 4 releases of our Cask Collection per year, choosing between 6 and 8 casks for each collection. Our cask are evaluated over time and are selected for inclusion only when we judge they have reached the peak of perfection.
Once a cask is selected, the spirit is rough filtered, removing any fragments of charred wood left behind by the cask, and then bottled at natural colour and cask strength, with no chill-filtration. There are therefore a limited number of bottles from each cask.
This process retains the true essence of the distillery character and cask maturation for your enjoyment.
Latest Release
We are delighted to present A. D. Rattray’s 78th Cask Collection, our winter release.
Time is written into every bottle – quite literally. Each bear two dates: when the spirit ran from the stills, and when we judged it ready to share. Between those points lies everything that shapes whisky: patience, evolution, and the quiet work of maturation. This is captured, as best we can on paper, by the age of the whisky, and for those casks with a secondary maturation, the time spent in each cask adds its own layer to the story.
Cask Collection No.78 is built around that idea. Spanning nearly three decades of distillation, these five bottlings reveal how whisky develops over time – deepening, strengthening, softening, or surprising as the years pass. Our role is simply to respect that journey, selecting each cask only when its time has truly come, and letting the spirit speak for itself.
Benrinnes 2013
Cask No. 312961
Cawdor Springs 2017
Cask No. 3
Croftengea 2017
Cask No. 246
Macduff 2006
Cask No. 101709