Islay

North Star Spirits

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SINGLE CASK SERIES 003 DISTILLED AT AN UNDISCLOSED ISLAY DISTILLERY UN-CHILLFILTERED NATURAL COLOUR BOTTLED FROM A REFILL HOGSHEAD DISTILLED: SEPTEMBER 2005 MATURED FOR 12 YEARS 70CLE 1 OF 132 BOTTLES TASTING NOTES... NOSE: Medicinal, spicy full-bodied smoke PALATE: Peated black pepper, dry complex FINISH: Chimneys from South Islay BOTTLED: SEPTEMBER 2017 52.3% ALC/VOL

North Star Spirits's own words, read from their page.

Buy from North Star SpiritsOut of stock. Price seen 2026-09-05. Affiliate link.

Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as NORTH STAR SPIRITS LTD., number SC530808. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "My name is Euan Sinclair, I'm the bottling hall manager at North Star Spirits. If I am not bottling biblical scotch whisky, I'll be re-racking spirit into sherry casks to create biblical scotch whisky. If you don't find me there, I'll be stock taking dry goods." Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.