The town of Craigellachie is synonymous with Speyside whisky, but its eponymous distillery has only recently come into its own as a single malt brand. For the majority of the 20th century it was owned by White Horse Distillers, who became part of DCL (now Diageo) in 1927. Its malt was important to many of their blends, and as a result, the first official distillery bottlings did not appear until the 1990s as part of the Flora & Fauna and Rare Malts Selection series. Diageo eventually offloaded the distillery along with the John Dewar & Sons portfolio to Bacardi, who relaunched it as part of its Last Great Malts collection in 2014.

This was launched in 2014 alongside a 13, 17 and 19 year old in the new core range from Bacardi.