Wine for sale: Spey Royal

Spey Royal

Spey royal is a blend created in around 1916 by W&A Gilbey, a blender and gin and brandy producer. It takes its name from the River Spey in Speyside, which is surrounded by numerous distilleries. The company also launched the Gilbery’s Special Export 8 Years Old and a Spey Royal 1857 in reference to the year the group was founded. W&A Gilbey became International Distillers and Vintners (IDV) after merging with United Wine Traders in 1962. Spey Royal was quickly eclipsed by the group’s Goliath, J&B. Everything now belongs to Diageo.