Hankey Bannister
Частина:
Inver House Distillers
About the brand
Hankey Bannister is one of the oldest blended Scotch brands — founded in London in 1757 by Beaumont Hankey and Hugh Bannister, two businessmen of opposite temperaments. It made its name on remarkable smoothness, fuelled the British elite for centuries and was a favourite of Winston Churchill.
Today it belongs to Inver House Distillers (ThaiBev), which blends it from the group's own Scottish malt distilleries (Balblair, Pulteney, anCnoc among them). The brand favours proven recipes over a sprawl of limited editions:
- Original — light and sweet, with toffee, honey and spice; no smoke.
- Heritage Blend — a reconstruction of the 1924 flavour (46%, non-chill-filtered), subtly smoky.
- 12 YO Regency and 21 YO Partners' Reserve — aged expressions, from vanilla and oak to dried plum and chocolate.
Browse it in the Hankey Bannister catalogue.
Хронологія
- 1757 Beaumont Hankey i Hugh Bannister otwierają sklep przy John Street w londyńskim West Endzie.
- 1901 Royal Warrant od króla Jerzego V — marka zostaje dostawcą dworu królewskiego.
- 1940 Winston Churchill zamawia regularne dostawy Hankey Bannister do swojej posiadłości w Chartwell.
- 1988 Marka przechodzi w ręce Inver House Distillers; produkcja zostaje zintegrowana ze szkockimi destylarniami holdingu.
- 2012 Odkupiona na aukcji butelka z 1924 r. staje się wzorem do odtworzenia kultowego Heritage Blend.
