Speyside SPEY 18 Years Old (46%)

Selected Edition

700ml / 46%

Single Malt

$148

A Speyside Distillery single malt, an 18 year old, from 1996 from the distillery, at 46%. Clean and floral, with dried fruit, fig and walnut. The hand built malt of Drumguish. The screen home of Lagganmore. A characterful small batch single malt. Gentle Highland fruit and honey. Smooth, gentle and quietly made.

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SKU SPD013 Categories Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Speyside, Whiskey Brand: Speyside

Description

This official Speyside Distillery single malt matured to 18 year old from 1996 and bottled at 46%. Only 1500 bottles were released. The Speyside Distillery, hand built over two decades by the stonemason Alex Fairlie in the Cairngorm foothills near Kingussie, is the source of the SPEY malts. The first single malt, Drumguish, appeared in 1993, three years after the first spirit ran.

The spirit was run slow through small copper stills for a light, fruity spirit, to build a fresh, orchard fruit character. Maturation in a sherry cask laid dried fruit over the light malt. At this age it is rounded and full, the fruit folded into a honeyed, waxy body. A long fermentation and slow distillation in the short stills are managed by hand to keep the spirit light and fruity.

At 46% it is soft, honeyed and fragrant. The Oloroso brings dried fruit, fig and a nutty depth, and green apple and a gentle spice sit alongside a quiet vanilla from the refill oak. It is fresh and clean, the fruity spirit shining through. A fruity, gently spiced finish lingers. This is the SPEY single malt from near Kingussie.