Ferguson Whisky & Lomond Golf Tours Launch 'Links & Cask'
Discover Links & Cask, the new collaboration between Ferguson Whisky and Lomond Golf Tours, combining Scotland's finest golf courses with exclusive whisky experiences.
Bringing Together Scotland's Greatest Fairways and Finest Whiskies
At Ferguson Whisky, we're passionate about sharing the very best of Scotland's whisky heritage. Whether we're helping clients discover rare whiskies, guiding them through private cask ownership, or creating unforgettable whisky experiences, our focus has always been on connecting people with the stories behind Scotland's most iconic spirit.
That's why we're delighted to announce our collaboration with Lomond Golf Tours to launch Links & Cask - a bespoke luxury experience that combines world-class golf with exceptional whisky.
Scotland is the birthplace of both. From legendary championship links to centuries-old distilleries, few destinations offer such a rich blend of history, craftsmanship and hospitality. Links & Cask has been created to showcase both, offering guests a truly authentic Scottish experience.
More Than a Golf Tour
This collaboration is about creating experiences that go beyond a traditional itinerary.
Working alongside the expert team at Lomond Golf Tours, guests can enjoy access to some of Scotland's most celebrated golf courses while discovering the people, places and stories that make Scotch whisky famous around the world.
Every whisky experience has been carefully curated by the Ferguson Whisky team, from exclusive tastings and distillery visits to educational experiences that explore the craft, heritage and character of Scotland's whisky industry.
For those interested in taking their whisky journey even further, we'll also introduce guests to the fascinating world of private cask ownership - offering a rare opportunity to discover how whisky is created, matured and enjoyed over generations.
David filling one of our Ferguson Whisky casks.
A Partnership Built on Shared Values
At the heart of this collaboration is a shared commitment to quality, authenticity and personalised service.
Lomond Golf Tours has built an outstanding reputation for creating bespoke golf itineraries that showcase Scotland at its finest. Their attention to detail and commitment to exceptional customer experiences perfectly complement Ferguson Whisky's passion for delivering memorable whisky journeys.
Together, we've created Links & Cask to offer something truly unique: a seamless blend of championship golf, exceptional whisky and genuine Scottish hospitality.
Experience Scotland Through Golf and Whisky
Whether you're travelling to play iconic courses, deepen your appreciation of Scotch whisky or simply experience Scotland in a more meaningful way, Links & Cask has been designed to create lasting memories.
From the first tee to the final dram, every element of the journey reflects the craftsmanship, heritage and warm welcome that Scotland is renowned for.
We're incredibly excited to be working with the team at Lomond Golf Tours and look forward to welcoming guests from around the world to experience Scotland through the perfect combination of golf and whisky.
To learn more about the Links & Cask experience, visit the dedicated page on Lomond Golf Tours and start planning your Scottish adventure.
The Machrie golf course, Isle of Islay
Introducing the Ferguson Whisky 35 Year Old North British – Exclusively at The Whisky Shop
We're delighted to introduce the latest addition to the Ferguson Whisky range: the Ferguson Whisky 35 Year Old North British, an exceptional single grain Scotch whisky available exclusively through The Whisky Shop.
This remarkable release has been matured for 35 years in a single bourbon barrel, allowing decades of patient maturation to develop its unique character. Bottled at its natural cask strength of 42.6% ABV, this whisky offers an authentic expression of the cask, exactly as intended.
A Rare Single Cask Release
Exceptional whiskies deserve exceptional care, and this release is no exception. Drawn from a single carefully selected cask, only 107 bottles have been produced, making this one of our most limited releases to date.
With such a small outturn, each bottle represents a rare opportunity for collectors and whisky enthusiasts to experience an outstanding mature single grain whisky.
Product Details
Distillery: North British
Age: 35 Years Old
Cask Type: Bourbon Barrel
ABV: 42.6% (Cask Strength)
Bottle Size: 700ml
Outturn: Only 107 bottles
Available Now
The Ferguson Whisky 35 Year Old North British is available now, exclusively through The Whisky Shop.
Whether you're looking to add a rare bottle to your collection or enjoy a beautifully matured single grain whisky, this limited release won't be around for long.
Visit your nearest The Whisky Shop store or shop online to secure your bottle while stocks last.
A Season of Milestones: From Islay Shores to the Waters of Monaco
Ferguson Whisky tasting event - Port Charlotte Hotel, Islay.
At Ferguson Whisky, every bottle tells a story - of people, place, craftsmanship, and the remarkable journeys that whisky can create.
Recent months have marked a significant chapter in our journey. From unveiling one of our rarest releases to sharing our whisky in one of the world’s most prestigious luxury settings, we have continued to take our passion from the heart of Scotland to the international stage.
The Arrival of a Rare Lochindaal
Few whiskies capture a sense of rarity quite like our Lochindaal 18 Year Old.
With only 287 bottles produced, this exceptional single cask release represents something truly special. Fully matured in a Sauternes cask for 18 years and bottled at its natural cask strength of 54% ABV, it delivers a whisky of extraordinary depth, complexity, and character.
For us, this release represents everything Ferguson Whisky stands for - patience, provenance, and the pursuit of exceptional casks with stories worth sharing.
Ferguson Whisky’s new release -18 year old Lochindaal.
Building a Global Reputation
Our journey has always been about more than creating exceptional whisky. It has been about building relationships, sharing experiences, and introducing collectors and enthusiasts to spirits that leave a lasting impression.
Following the success of our debut releases, including the acclaimed Speyside 12, the Ferguson Whisky name has continued to reach new audiences across the UK and internationally.
Every conversation, tasting, and partnership has helped shape what we are becoming - a modern independent whisky company rooted in heritage but looking confidently towards the future.
A Moment in Monaco
Perhaps nothing symbolises this next chapter more than bringing Ferguson Whisky aboard a superyacht in Monaco.
Against the backdrop of one of the world’s most iconic luxury destinations, we had the opportunity to share our whisky with an international community that values craftsmanship, exclusivity, and unforgettable experiences.
It was a powerful reminder that great whisky has no borders. A dram poured in Scotland can begin a conversation that travels across oceans.
Ferguson Whisky on The Floating Art Hotel - Monaco
The Journey Continues
From the peated landscapes of Islay to the glamorous coastline of the Mediterranean, the path of Ferguson Whisky continues to evolve.
We are incredibly proud of what has been achieved, but even more excited about what lies ahead.
More rare releases. More extraordinary experiences. More stories waiting to be told.
This is only the beginning.
Slàinte,
The Ferguson Whisky Team
Celebrating Ferguson Whisky’s Award-Winning Debut
Ferguson Whisky Speyside 12.
We’re excited to share a feature from Brindiamo Group about Ferguson Whisky’s journey from vision to bottle. Our debut release—a 12-Year-Old Speyside Single Malt matured in Pedro Ximénez sherry casks—has already received industry accolades, highlighting the craftsmanship behind independent bottlers.
Read the full story here: From Vision to Bottle: Ferguson Whisky’s Award-Winning Debut
Ferguson Whisky Embarks on a Spirited Journey: Miles Traveled, Hills Ahead
David Ferguson at The Old Course, St Andrews,
Scotland, United Kingdom.
by Hugh MacDonald
Photography by Laura Ferguson
The Machrie golf course stares imperiously at the sea. It sits on an island where peat bogs provide heat in the way of fuel and a way of life in the dark water they funnel to the island distilleries.
The Scottish essentials of golf, food, and whisky are never more distilled than on the small Hebridean island. The distilleries have produced a famed worldwide product in its range of Islay malts. It has also been the instigator of invigorating personal experience.
“I once sat in the old Machrie Hotel eating prawn sandwiches after a round of golf with my brother, Andrew. It must have been about 30 years ago,” says David Ferguson. “It is one of those seemingly small experiences that lead you to where you are today.”
He also sat in the informal conventions after funerals and weddings on the island. He was also taken to The Slaughterhouse Shed on the back road of Port Ellen, a town laced with distilleries nearby. This all informed his life, and it has now consumed it.
David has launched Ferguson Whisky, an independent blender and bottler that provides end-to-end whisky services from cask to bottle. This can be consultancy work on bespoke projects or managing whisky portfolios for clients.
This is business, but it is also personal. The whisky business is bred in the bone for David. This is a life in three acts. The major scenes are set in Islay,
New York and mainland Scotland. David is the leading actor. It is a story of passion, the tale of a boy who grew to be a businessman, and a celebration of family and how goodness can beget goodness. It is a saga that deserves to be savored over a good malt. And there is no other kind on Islay. The story starts and ends on the island.
David and Jack at Lochranza Distillery, Isle of Arran.
This was taken in 2020 when we visited Jack’s ‘Arran 2020 Cask’ for the first time.
“My grandfather, Alexander MacInnes, was an Ileach,” says David, using the Gaelic word for a native of the island. “He moved to Glasgow to work, married, and lived in the West End of Glasgow. My grandad, a great storyteller, was an electrician at Fairfields Shipbuilders, and my grandmother, Ellen MacInnes, a fabulous cook, was a nurse at the Western Infirmary.”
Islanders had to travel to the mainland for medical treatment. Their relatives stayed with his grandparents. “It was the sort of thing that was just done naturally,” he says. “You helped other people out. If islanders were coming to the city, you shared your home with them.” He adds: “I am known on the island as the grandson of Alexander and Ellen MacInnes. That is all people need to know, and there is immediate respect for where I have come from in life and who I am.”
A few miles from the beautiful Machrie Golf Club stands The Slaughterhouse Shed. Its grisly name disguises a more benign purpose. “It was used latterly by local men to sample whisky and discuss matters of the day. It was owned by my Uncle Frankie, who in the manner of the day was lighthouse keeper, local butcher, and a Stillman at Port Ellen Distillery,” says David.
David, now a member of the Machrie Golf Club, has renovated The Slaughterhouse Shed. “I just have to add a water supply,” he says. This brings a recollection of holidaying on the island. “Machrie chalets were fairly basic back then, nothing like the luxurious hotel that exists now. The water in the taps ran peaty brown. I have never forgotten that.”
He had early duties in the alcohol trade. “As a boy, I would visit my grandparents at weekends, and the house would occasionally be full of people from Islay who were staying while their relatives were receiving treatment at the Western Infirmary across the road. Parties would break out with songs being sung and drink being taken. I helped serve the drink, and my grandmother took whisky with a lot of water.”
The scene changes abruptly to New York. David graduated from Strathclyde Business School and then trained as a chartered accountant with Deutsche Bank in London before then moving to Wall Street. “I was there from 2006 to 2010, so I worked right through the financial crisis,” he says. He was laboring in the field of credit risk management. “I would start early in the morning and not stop until silly o’clock at night,” he says.
He was never far from whisky or golf. “As the token Scot, I was looked upon as the expert on anything to do with whisky,” he says. His natural inclination was to use any leisure time to focus on golf. “I experienced the 39th Ryder Cup, the Miracle at Medinah in 2012, and I was pleased to learn that it had been designed by a Scotsman, Tom Bendelow, in conjunction with the great Bobby Jones.”
Alister MacKenzie, the golf designer who helped create one of the most iconic courses, Augusta National, which hosts the annual Masters Tournament, was also of Gaelic stock. His father came from Lochinver in the Highlands. The link between Scots and golf is as strong as the bond between Scots and whisky.
This is starkly visible in St Andrews, the home of golf. David is a regular visitor to this part of Fife. Again, it is personal. “It is a regular holiday haunt for myself, my wife, and my children,” he says. It is also business. “There are so many new distilleries springing up in the East Neuk of Fife, and I am now working with them.”
Ferguson Whisky has become a link in that chain that unites whisky and golf universally. It is now a partner with Bravo Whisky Golf, whose mission statement is to “go above and beyond to make golf fresh and exciting and to reveal to a select few our favorite secret places.”
David at the Swilcan Bridge on The Old Course, St Andrews. Scotland, United Kingdom.
The journeys are bespoke. The destinations are celebrated with highly distinctive malts. Ferguson Whisky also has a partnership with Brindiamo, a leader in bulk alcohol sourcing, to offer investors prime opportunities in the rapidly growing bourbon industry.
Both will benefit from David’s extensive and undoubtedly unrivaled experience in the whisky business. The boy who was surrounded by the water of life in his grandparent's home went on to immerse himself in the whisky business when he returned from New York.
He has been in the industry for 15 years, working for esteemed distilleries, including Bruichladdich, on Islay, and Isle of Arran Distillers. He has thus established personal connections with those at the very top of the whisky business.
But, as always, this is personal. “When I worked in New York and London, I made contacts who have now gone on to work worldwide. I thus have contacts from Korea to Kuala Lumpur to Kensington,” he says with a smile. He has that personal connection. “You can’t work in the whisky business without being known for who you are and how you go about your business,” he says. “It is a small world, and your reputation precedes and stays with you. I am happy with that.”
It is also a small world that has a hub in Islay. “There are currently 10 working distilleries on the island, with more in the making, and it has become world famous for its distinctive malts. I, of course, do business there. But, again, it is personal. I have The Slaughterhouse Shed there. I play golf there. But I am always known as Alexander and Ellen MacInnes’ grandson. And I am happy about that, too.”
The Mugdock reservoir on the outskirts of Glasgow looks down on Tannoch Loch and the beautiful sandstone homes surrounding it. “I worked in a country club nearby as a student and regularly ran around the reservoir. I always looked down and promised myself that one day I would live in one of those houses,” says David. It took him merely 15 years. After his sojourn in New York, he made his home near the loch with his wife, Laura. They were soon joined by two sons, Jack and Ben.
Machrie Hotel, Isle of Islay (with the Ferguson Whisky branded vehicle)
It was an early sign that the teenage Ferguson was not afraid to set targets and then achieve them. This trait has followed him in his business career. He could have stayed on Wall Street. He could have stayed with the prestigious whisky brands and distilleries. But he decided to form Ferguson Whisky. So what made him take such a jump? “Again, it was just something inside me. I wanted to use my experience and professional expertise in my own way. That’s how Ferguson Whisky was born.”
So what does he want to do with the company? “We are an independent blender and bottler providing end-to-end whisky services from cask to bottle. This could be consultancy on a range of whisky portfolios. We source and buy bulk volumes of whisky. We offer luxury whisky experiences and bottlings. This comes with the promise of individual adventure because it is more than a business, though we seek to make a profit for investors, and our professionalism gives a more than good chance of that.”
He points out that more than £7bn came into the UK economy in 2023 and knows the seriousness of the business. “I have strong relationships with distilleries and brands and can thus access all aspects of the single malt lifespan. This includes spirit supply, access to wood, warehousing and bottling.” The company has already built a satisfied customer list. Yes, we bring experience and expertise, and hopefully, we can continue to bring financial returns,” says Ferguson. “But, for me, it has to be about a lot more than that.” He has business credentials, HMRC taxation certificates, and ethical and practical working practices guarantees. “This is all good and proper and the least that any potential investor should expect,” he says. “But it has to be about something deeper, too. I was brought up with whisky and its lore. I heard the stories louder and clearer when I went into what many call a business, but my grandparents would simply call a way of life. I want others to hear that story and enjoy that experience. I want the people who come to Ferguson Whisky to have an adventure. I want them to have spectacular tastings and wonderful physical and spiritual journeys. This may seem all too romantic, but it has been my life. This is what happened to me. I will pass this on to my sons, not just as a business but as a lesson in who we are, what we believe is important, and what we think should endure and be celebrated.”
Thus, photographs of the MacInnes clan and its Ferguson branch are found at The Slaughterhouse Shed and on other points of the island. This is why a stroll on Machrie Golf Course provokes memories far from birdies made and bogies suffered. It is why there are now photographs of David and his older son, Jack, in distilleries, breathing in the spirit of family history and wondering at the mysterious contents of casks.
It has always been a family endeavor. “I have been steeped in it,” he says. “It has always fascinated me. I want to dedicate my working life to it. I want it to be an adventure. But I want people to accompany me on it. It has enhanced my life, and I want it to add to others’ lives. There is a great story to be heard, but there is also a great story for every individualto tell, whether it be that night they first visited a wonderful place, be it on Islay or on Speyside, or that day they bought that special cask or even that morning they walked onto one of Scotland’s great courses after a wonderful night sampling a dram of the best a nation and a culture can create.” The journey has begun for Ferguson Whisky. Many miles have been tramped by its creator. There are exciting hills still to be scaled.
To learn more about Brindiamo Group please visit their website at www.brindiamogroup.com
To learn more about Bravo Whisky Golf please visit their website at www.bravowhiskygolf.com
David filling one of the ‘Ferguson Whisky Islay Single Malt’ casks on site.