Glen Scotia 12 Years Old (53.3%)

A 12 year old Glen Scotia, a distillery bottling, at 53.3%, 14000 bottles in all. Glen Scotia is a Campbeltown single malt from a town once called the whisky capital of the world. It is one of only three working distilleries left in Campbeltown, with Springbank and Glengyle.

It was run through the stills and shell and tube condensers on Crosshill Loch water, for the salty, oily make Glen Scotia is known for. It was matured in an Amontillado cask, the wood working into the oily malt. By the integrating teens congeners fade and esters build, the salty, oily spirit growing rounder. The Campbeltown style is oily and salted, the cask deepening it over the years. Its Victoriana and single cask releases have won the distillery wide acclaim. The maritime setting on the Kintyre coast threads salt and brine through the spirit. The slow distillation and shell and tube condensers give the oily Glen Scotia body.

At its natural 53.3% it is concentrated. Sea salt, citrus and a salted toffee, with a dry, nutty, almond edge from the cask. A baked apple and a sea salt lift it. A long, oily finish carries a sea salt and a citrus. This is a Campbeltown single malt of real character.