Glen Scotia Single Cask Selection Spring 2022 7 Years Old 2015 (58.4%)

A 7 year old Glen Scotia, a distillery bottling, from 2015, cask 21/42-10, at 58.4%, 313 bottles in all. Glen Scotia is a coastal, briny Campbeltown malt, founded in 1832 on the Kintyre peninsula. It was founded in 1832 as Scotia, one of the survivors of Campbeltown's Victorian whisky boom.

It was distilled slow for the salty, oily Glen Scotia style, building a maritime character of sea salt and oil. It was matured in a Red Wine cask, the wood working into the oily malt. At an extractive age eugenol lends a clove note and lactones a coconut, the spirit fresh, oily and coastal. Vanillin and oak lactones from the wood lend vanilla and coconut over the fruit. The cool, salt laden Campbeltown air gives a slow, coastal maturation in the warehouses. It is one of only three working distilleries left in Campbeltown, with Springbank and Glengyle. The Campbeltown style is oily and salted, the cask deepening it over the years.

At its natural 58.4% it is concentrated. Salt, citrus and a soft toffee, with red berry and a dry spice from the cask. A baked apple and a sea salt lift it. Citrus, salt and a soft oak see out the finish. This is Glen Scotia, a survivor of the old whisky capital.