Auchentoshan 14 Years Old 2011 Cask #3549375 (Duncan Taylor)

Bottled by Duncan Taylor in 2026 as a 14 year old single cask release, drawn from cask 3549375 of 2011 vintage Auchentoshan with 87 bottles distributed to the European market at cask strength of 53%. Duncan Taylor was founded in Glasgow in 1938 and is now based in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, with one of the largest privately held stocks of aged Scotch whisky casks.

Distilled in 2011 from 100% unpeated malted barley with Loch Cochno water from the Kilpatrick Hills, the wash was fermented around 62 hours across Douglas fir and stainless steel washbacks before triple distillation. Auchentoshan runs every drop through three copper pot stills, with the intermediate and spirit stages collecting at around 81% ABV. The extra copper contact strips sulphur compounds and fusel oils while concentrating ethyl hexanoate, isoamyl acetate, and other light esters, giving a clean spirit base filled into a single Palo Cortado sherry cask.

Fourteen years in European oak Palo Cortado conditions drove distinctive sherry character into the lighter triple distilled base. Palo Cortado combines the oxidative aldehyde development of Amontillado, including acetaldehyde and syringaldehyde, with the body and richness of Oloroso, drawn from ellagitannins and gallic acid in the European oak. Walnut, dried fig, and orange peel develop alongside sotolon driven curry leaf, integrated with the spirit's underlying citrus and almond core at 53%.