Drambuie

Here Captain John MacKinnon helped the prince to hide from any persecution and in return received from them the secret recipe of a drink produced specially for him by his personal pharmacist. With the passage of the recipe from generation to generation and the beginning of production on a more and more extended scale, this spirit came out of the borders of the Isle of Skye. The fame of ‘An Dram Buidheach’ was growing, in Gaelico the ‘beverage that satisfies’. Since then three generations of MacKinnon have kept the Drambuie formula, up to the historic transfer of ownership in 2015 in favor of William Grant & Sons.

The original recipe, which was born by virtue of the medicinal properties derived from the mixture of a local alcoholic product such as Scotch with spices similarly found in the area, still involves the use of Malt and Grain Whiskies from the Highlands and Speyside regions. Today Drambuie represents the classic that returns, an icon of Scottish history that evolved hand in hand with the consecration of mixed drinking, the whisky-based liqueur most celebrated by experts in the sector and remained intact in the recipe for generations not to betray its essence of "An Dram Buidheach", that is the drink that satisfies.