Inchgower 14 Years Old 2008 Cask #HL 19731 (Edition Spirits)

Inchgower is rarely bottled on its own, most of its salty, nutty spirit going to the blenders, so independent releases carry the distillery's name where the blends do not. Edition Spirits selected this single cask, distilled in 2008, and released it at 14 years old in its The First Editions range. Single cask HL 19731 gave 392 bottles.

A quick mashing regime and a warmer second water give Inchgower the savoury, saline character that earns it the Manzanilla of Speyside nickname. This bottling matured in an ex-Bourbon cask.

Bottled at its natural cask strength of 60.4%, without dilution, the ex-Bourbon barrel adds vanilla from vanillin and a coconut note from oak lactones, over a light cereal sweetness. At 14 years the wood and the salty, nutty spirit are roughly in balance. The recorded notes run to fresh orchard fruit and honey.