Glen Garioch 31 years old - Macbeth Act One - The Thanes

Alliances and collaborative efforts clash with ruthless ambition and fierce power struggles: The Scottish whisky industry is like Macbeth, Lexi Livingstone Burgess recognized, laying the foundation for the dramatic story of an impressive whisky collection. Together with Elixir Distillers, the founder of Livingstone and Burgess Studio, known for creative design work in Scotch, cast whiskies into the fantastic characters of Shakespeare's tragedy.

From old single casks to expressive malt and grain whiskies to rarities from closed distilleries: the Macbeth Collection will bring a total of 42 individual characters to the whisky stage.

Each of the limited-edition bottlings is illustrated by established artist Sir Quentin Blake with the corresponding character and accompanied by notes written in lyrical prose by whisky author Dave Broom.

The Macbeth Collection consists of six series: The Leads (5 majestic malts), The Thanes (12 noble malts), The Ghosts (6 "ghost distilleries"), The Witches (3 malts and one blend), The Murderers (4 island malts), and The Household (10 characterful whiskies). The whiskies in these series will be blended and released in three annual releases until 2025.

Act One marks the start this year with 9 bottlings.