Glen Keith 27 Years Old 1991 Cask #73652 + 73655 (Signatory)

From the Pitlochry bottler Signatory Vintage, a 27 year old Glen Keith, distilled in 1991, from cask 73652 + 73655, bottled at 49.4%, one of 365 bottles. Glen Keith is a light Speyside malt, mothballed for years and revived in 2013. Single malt Glen Keith is rare, most of it coming from independent bottlers.

It was distilled light and fruity in the Glen Keith style, building the fresh Glen Keith style. It rested in ex-Bourbon oak, oak lactones lending vanilla and a little coconut. Through the evaporative decades the spirit concentrates, esters folding into mango, beeswax and a soft honey. Built for the blender's art, the spirit ages with grace as a single malt. The light, fruity spirit shows the cask clearly, vanilla and fruit to the fore. Much of the Glen Keith make went to the blenders, a little kept as single malt. Maturation in the racked warehouses at Keith is slow and steady.

At cask strength 49.4% it is full bodied. A clean, fruity sweetness, with a soft vanilla from the oak. The mouthfeel is light, the fruit carried on a clean body. A fresh finish ends on apple and a soft oak. This is Glen Keith, Seagram's experimental Speyside malt.