Nc’nean Ainnir

Ainnir, Gaelic for maiden, was the first single malt Nc’nean ever released, drawn in 2020 from five casks of its earliest 2017 spirit. Ten of the first bottles raised a record sum at charity auction. It set out the organic, net-zero house style from Annabel Thomas's distillery on the remote Morvern coast.

Matured across shaved, toasted and recharred red wine casks and ex-Bourbon, the young spirit took colour and flavour quickly, the recharred wine wood giving red berry and spice while the bourbon oak lent vanilla.

At 60.3% it shows a malty depth over red fruit, vanilla and citrus, undiluted. The whisky that introduced Nc’nean.