The Alistair Walker Whisky Company, based in Grangemouth, Central Scotland, was established in 2018. With almost 20
years’ experience in the Scotch whisky industry, Alistair Walker took the plunge and decided to forge his own path – as an
independent bottler.
Independent bottlers, aka merchant bottlers, have been around for a long time. Quite simply, they source whiskies from
different distilleries throughout Scotland (and beyond), and, when they are ready, they bottle them as single casks, in their
most natural form – un-chill filtered, at natural colour, and usually at cask strength.
Alistair Walker Whisky Co. is not affiliated to any specific distillery and able to source casks from various distilleries, thereby
offering a diverse portfolio of whisky bottlings that cover the myriad flavours, aromas and styles that whisky has to offer.
The whiskies are bottled under the brand name ‘Infrequent Flyers’. That name refers to the nature of many of the casks that
are bottled – often whiskies from lesser-known distilleries that are of excellent quality, but have never been widely or
consistently available. As such, many of the bottlings are of whiskies that you just don’t see so often – hence the name
‘Infrequent Flyers’.