Douglas Laing & Co was founded in Glasgow in 1948 by Fred Douglas Laing and remained a family firm through the second generation before splitting in 2013, when brothers Fred and Stewart divided the business between Douglas Laing (now run by Fred Jr and his daughter Cara) and Hunter Laing. Old Particular is Douglas Laing's single-cask premium range, launched in 2013 to replace the older Provenance series at higher strengths. Each bottling is drawn from a single cask, non-chill-filtered and natural colour, bottled at 48.4% unless the strength dictates otherwise.
Glen Garioch — pronounced Glen Geery — lies in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, and claims a founding date of 1797, which would make it one of the oldest licensed distilleries in Scotland. It sits in the heart of the old Aberdeenshire barley country and for much of the twentieth century produced a lightly peated Highland spirit. Suntory (now Beam Suntory) acquired the distillery in 1994 and phased out in-house floor maltings, shifting to unpeated production from around the millennium.
Douglas Laing's Old Particular Glen Garioch, drawn from a refill hogshead, shows the drier, more cereal-driven side of the distillery: heather honey and baked fruit over a firm malt backbone, with the faintest ghost of old-style peat lingering in the finish. It is a solid, grown-up Highland dram in the merchant tradition.
