Usher’s Green Stripe Blend

The sons of a spirits dealer, Andrew and John Usher created one of the world’s most successful blended Scotch whiskies, Old Vatted Glenlivet, and played a key role in building the North British distillery. But they were also responsible for one of the most misunderstood lawsuits in Scotch history – the trademark battle for ‘Glenlivet’.

Andrew and John Usher were born to the whisky trade. Their father, Andrew Usher Sr, had started out as a spirits dealer in Edinburgh in 1813. He formed a particularly close business relationship with George Smith, the founder of the Drumin distillery in Glenlivet, Banffshire.

Parcels of Smith’s Glenlivet whisky were shipped from the port of Burghead to Leith, where Usher would sell them on for a generous commission. By 1843, Andrew Sr was receiving 600 gallons each month, and advertising ‘The Real Glenlivet whisky’ in London newspapers at 21 shillings per gallon. Andrew Usher & Co subsequently became the sole agent for sales of Smith’s whisky south of the River Tay. Smith rebuilt his distillery on a new site in 1859, and it was named ‘The Glenlivet’ distillery.

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