Teaninich 7 Year Old North Star Spirits Whisky Punks Never Mind The Distillery Limited Edition Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2025) 70cl
1 of 90 bottles only.
Teaninich has started to receive a lot more attention in recent years as it comes out of its shell and has hit more indie bottlers. Here is one of them with a catchy label reminding us of a certain comedy program....
Tasting Notes
Nose : Punchy nose. Higher ABV. Sherried, cherries, bits of fruit and toffee, pain au raisin vibe.
Palate : Sherried kick, bit of cinnamon and ginger. Stone fruit. Bit of cake. Not polished. Still got those slightly rough edges to it and the ABV shows.
Finish : Well think sherried whisky.
About this North Star x Whisky Punks collaboration
An intro from James
OK so we've done this again.
This time round we have the cask naming rights so no long afternoon conversations with the SWA legal team in the offing.
It's TEANINICH.
Yes the distillery that looks a bit like the Schweppes industrial unit just outside Rugby and has all the whisky romance of a quick shag in an unused conference room.
It is however a shiny example near bullet proof consistency of the production of whisky and a favourite of indie bottlers. I cannot think of how many different bottles of Teaninich I've had over time but none of them were rubbish.
So when the besties at North Star said they had some spare I perked up and started thinking WP2 and got to taste a rather punchy 6yo sherry cask.
The same levels of stringent quality testing amongst several drinkers with no professional qualifications or credentials were implemented and it was decided that it was decent.
Mike Woodward-Gregg declared this as thinking drinkers dram so not only are we using this as the tag line but we are also throwing Mike straight under the bus/HGV/car and blaming him if no one likes it.
About Teanininch
Built in 1817, Teaninich was an early legal distillery, but as it was built by Napoleonic war hero and estate owner ‘Blind’ Captain Hugh Munro that’s no more than you would expect. He and his brother General John Munro were notable as being benign and caring landlords in a region which was brutally hit by the Highland Clearances [see Clynelish].
Another local man, John Ross, took the lease in 1869 and ran the site until 1895 when it was transferred to Elgin-based blenders Munro & Cameron. It was the trustees of the late Innes Cameron who sold Teaninich to DCL in 1933.
It has undergone regular expansion – larger stills were installed in 1946, before the pair were doubled in 1962. In 1970 a new distillery, Teaninch ‘A Side’, with six stills was built. The two parts ran simultaneously until 1984, when the original site (‘B Side’) was silenced.
The same thing is about to happen all over again. Teaninich’s capacity is due to double to 9m litres per annum and there are plans to build a separate 10m litres per annum distillery on the same site.
About North Star Spirits
Astronomy plays a massive part in the storytelling narrative of our core whisky range. Our vision is reflected in our company name. The North Star is the anchor of the northern sky. It is a landmark, or sky marker, that helps those who follow it determine direction as it glows brightly to guide and lead toward a purposeful destination. It also has a symbolic meaning, for the North Star depicts a beacon of inspiration and hope to many. North Star focuses its energies on the curiosities, peculiar oddities, and obscurities - whisky as it comes, straight from the cask and into a bottle - without any fancy tricks.
58.7% ABV
70cl
