Glen Scotia The Classic Series No.1 14 Years Old 2011

A 14 year old Glen Scotia, a distillery bottling, from 2011, cask 288, at 56%, 226 bottles in all. Glen Scotia is a Campbeltown single malt made on Crosshill Loch water in the Wee Toon. It sits on High Street in Campbeltown, on the Kintyre peninsula on the west coast.

It was worked through the stills for an oily, coastal make, for the salty, oily make Glen Scotia is known for. An ex-Bourbon barrel shaped it, vanillin lending vanilla under the salt and oil. 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. The oily, coastal spirit shows the cask clearly, vanilla and brine to the fore. Refill oak lets the salty, oily Glen Scotia character lead the way. Its long ferment, averaging well over a hundred hours, builds a fruity, coastal character.

At cask strength 56% it is full bodied. Baked apple, brine and a creamy oil, with a soft vanilla from the oak. Citrus, brine and a salted toffee fill the middle. The close is oily and salted, fruit over a gentle oak. This is a salty, oily Campbeltown single malt.