Douglas Laing & Co is a Glasgow-based independent bottler and blender of Scotch whisky. The company was founded in 1948 by Fred Douglas Laing, and it has remained in Laing family control ever since. Today the company is run by brothers Fred and Stewart Laing.

In 1990, Douglas Laing & Co’s sister company, Douglas McGibbon, was awarded the Queen's Award

Queen's Awards for Enterprise

The Queen's Awards for Enterprise is an awards programme for British businesses and other organizations who excel at international trade, innovation or sustainable development. They are the highest official UK awards for British businesses...

 for Export Achievement. The award was based on the increase in overseas sales of the McGibbon’s Golf Range between 1988 and 1990.

Old Malt Cask

Amongst Douglas Laing’s back catalogue of whiskies is the Old Malt Cask range which was launched in 1998. This includes single cask whiskies bottled at 50% abv (the company cite this as their preferred drinking strength). These whiskies are neither caramel-coloured nor chill-filtered

Chill filtering

Chill filtering is a method in whisky making for removing residue. In chill filtering, whisky is cooled to between -10 and 4 degrees Celsius and passed through a fine adsorption filter...

, both processes are common practice when bottling whisky today.

Platinum Range

The Platinum range is a selection of malt whiskies bottled at natural cask strength

Cask strength

Cask strength is a term used in whisky-making to describe the level of alcohol-by-volume strength that is used for a whisky during its storage in a cask for maturation – typically in the range of 60–65% abv....

. These are bottled in traditional style bottles and are individually numbered.

Provenance Range

The Provenance range is a selection of single malt whiskies from Scotland. Each bottle displays the season in which the whisky was distilled and bottled.