Bonnington Pedro Ximénez Sherry Cask

Wait nearly 100 years for a single malt distillery in Edinburgh, and two pop up at once! Holyrood in 2019, then Bonnington in 2020. However, Bonnington’s owners had already been tinkering in a pilot distillery (trialling malts, yeasts, fermentations, cut points etc.) That allowed them to release Edinburgh’s first single malt in nearly a century in 2022. It was a John Crabbie & Co release (yes, as in the alcoholic ginger beer brand!) John Crabbie, born in 1806, didn’t just do a good line in ginger wine.

Like many greats of the age he came from a grocer family and started blending his own whiskies. He also founded North British grain distillery in Edinburgh alongside Andrew Usher and William Sanderson. Bonnington will continue Crabbie’s whisky legacy, but this affordable limited release arrives under the distillery’s own name and is matured exclusively in PX sherry casks.