Glen Scotia 9 Years Old

An official release of Glen Scotia, a 9 year old, at 56.2%. Glen Scotia, founded in 1832, is one of the three surviving Campbeltown distilleries. Campbeltown, the Wee Toon, once held some thirty distilleries and was the whisky capital of the world.

Run through the stills and shell and tube condensers on Crosshill Loch water, for the salty, oily make Glen Scotia is known for. Finished in a Fino cask, the wood building over the oily, coastal spirit. Young and extractive, the cask sheds vanillin (vanilla) and toasted sugars (light caramel) over the salty make. The Campbeltown style is oily and salted, the cask deepening it over the years. The maritime setting on the Kintyre coast threads salt and brine through the spirit. The oily, coastal spirit shows the cask clearly, vanilla and brine to the fore. Vanillin and oak lactones from the wood lend vanilla and coconut over the fruit.

At its natural 56.2% it is concentrated. A briny, oily coastal fruit, with a dry, bready, almond note from the cask. The texture is oily and coating, the fruit lifted by vanilla. It finishes long, briny and oily. This is Glen Scotia's coastal, briny Campbeltown style.