Craigellachie 13 Years Old 2007 Cask #Batch 12.1207.28 (Mossburn – Distillers & Blenders)

From the bottler Mossburn - Distillers & Blenders, a 13 year old Craigellachie, distilled in 2007, from cask Batch 12.1207.28, bottled at 46%. Craigellachie was built in 1891 and is one of the few distilleries still using worm tubs. It keeps its worm tub condensers, an old fashioned set up that builds a heavy, meaty, sulphurous spirit.

It was worked through stills and worm tubs for a muscular, oily spirit, building the old fashioned Craigellachie style. Ex-Sherry wood added a dried fruit richness to the heavy, meaty malt. In integration lactones (coconut) and vanillin (vanilla) knit with the malt, the worm tub weight softening to tropical fruit. The meaty, oily spirit takes cask flavour well while keeping its robust, worm tub weight. It sits at the village of Craigellachie, where the River Fiddich joins the Spey by Telford's iron bridge.

At 46% it is clean and soft. Malt, dried fruit and a savoury oil, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. The texture is full and oily, the fruit lifted by a meaty weight. A robust, malty finish ends on tropical fruit and a warm spice. This is a meaty, tropical Speyside single malt.