LOGAN 12yo De Luxe Scotch Whisky

Those familiar with the story of the White Horse blend and its creator, the whisky baron Sir Peter Mackie, might recognise the name Logan. It refers to his uncle, James Logan Mackie, a Glasgow whisky merchant with an interest in Lagavulin. With no children of his own, he sent his nephew to learn about whisky on Islay in 1878, before joining the business.

White Horse whisky was trademarked in 1891, and a decade later it was joined by the deluxe, aged blends, Logan’s Perfection and Logan’s Superb. Presumably it was a tribute to the blending skills of James Logan Mackie after whom Peter Mackie named his only son. When he was killed in the war in 1917, only three years after joining Mackie & Co., his father was devastated and is said to have never fully recovered.

Sir Peter Mackie died in 1924, and in 1927 White Horse Distillers Ltd., including the Logan blend, was absorbed into the Distillers Company Ltd., which eventually became Diageo.