The Cairn is Gordon & MacPhail's shiny new distillery and marks a new direction for the centuries old whisky firm. Moving beyond blending and bottling, they already own Benromach and this new distillery looks to complement that within their wider plans.

While those stills are firing up and the stock is maturing the team have released CRN57°, a collection of blended malts that point the way of the whisky to come, as they put it, taste tomorrow, today.