About us
The Vintage Malt Whisky Co. was founded in 1992 by Brian
Crook, an honours graduate in Food Science with twenty years experience
in the malt whisky industry, latterly as Export Director for one of Scotland's
principal distillers. The aim was to produce a range of malt whiskies
from Scotland's finest distilleries and to make them available to independent
wine and spirit importers throughout the world.
One hundred years ago there were over one hundred and twenty malt whisky distilleries throughout Scotland, independently owned and producing malts of rare character from the Highlands, Islands and Lowlands. Today probably only seventy or eighty still produce malt whisky on a regular basis, and of these, only a handful are owned by family companies. The vast majority of malts available from Scotland today are produced by multi-national companies, so the opportunity for family companies worldwide to deal with small, independent scotch whisky distillers has virtually gone. It is to fill this gap that VMW was formed.
