Wine for sale: Bailie Nicol Jarvie

Bailie Nicol Jarvie

Bailie Nicol Jarvie is a blend created in the early 1880s by Nicol Anderson, a Glasgow wine merchant who named it after a character from Walter Scott’s 1819 novel Rob Roy. After Anderson went bankrupt at the end of WWI along with the new buyer, Macdonald & Muir—now The Glenmorangie Company—bought the brand from the liquidator for next to nothing. It was relaunched in 1994, but production ceased in 2014, as the LVMH group had decided to focus more on its single malts Ardbeg and Glenmorangie. There was high demand for these malts, which put a certain amount of pressure on stocks, despite the group using other malts for its blend, generally from distilleries in the Diageo group.