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This Glen Spey was bottled by The Whisky Cellar, a 14 year old, at 54.7%. A clean, grassy malt over a light, waxy body. Long a key malt in the Spey Royal and J and B blends. Owned by Diageo, most of its make goes quietly to blends. Bottled as a single malt in Diageo’s Flora and Fauna range in 2001. This is a light, grassy Speyside single malt.
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A Glen Spey of a 14 year old chosen by The Whisky Cellar, distilled in 2009, from cask 12031, at 54.7%, one of 315 bottles. Glen Spey is a Speyside single malt from Rothes, founded in 1878 as the Mill of Rothes. Its water is the Doonie Burn, a source it shares with its Rothes neighbours. Under Gilbey it took the Glen Spey name and supplied the house Spey Royal blend. James Stuart held the licence to Macallan at the time, and bought that distillery outright in 1886.
The spirit was distilled from unpeated malt, giving the clean, nutty Speyside spirit Glen Spey is known for. An ex-Bourbon barrel shaped it, vanillin lending vanilla under the light fruit. By the integrating teens the raw notes fade and esters build, the grassy spirit growing rounder and a touch waxy. Years in oak round the spirit, the fresh notes deepening towards a nutty honey and orchard fruit.
Bottled at a cask strength 54.7%, it is concentrated. Green apple, hay and a soft cereal, with a light oak sweetness. Soft meadow grass and a nutty malt sit behind the cask. It finishes light, fresh and faintly nutty. This is a fresh, fragrant Speyside single malt.
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