Glenallachie 13 Years Old 2006 Cask #5754 (Whisky.de)

Single Cask

700ml / 59.5%

Single Malt

$296

A 13 year old GlenAllachie from Whisky.de, 2006, at 59.5%, a festival bottling. Deep and dark, all baked apple, honey and a chocolate, with raisin, date and treacle from the cask. A rich, deep Speyside single malt of dried fruit and chocolate. Built for the blend boom of the 1960s, now a sherry led single malt. This is the sherry led malt of Aberlour.

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SKU CGL163 Categories Glenallachie, Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Whiskey

Description

Whisky.de bottled this GlenAllachie, a 13 year old, distilled in 2006, from cask 5754, at 59.5%, bottled for a whisky festival. GlenAllachie is a Speyside single malt from the hills above Aberlour, below Ben Rinnes. It runs unusually long fermentations, up to a hundred and sixty hours, for a thick, ester rich and fruity spirit.

The spirit was taken gently through wash and spirit stills, giving a full bodied Speyside spirit. It was matured in a Pedro Ximenez cask, the wood working deep into the malt. Through integration spirit and wood marry, vanillin rounding out as esters lend riper orchard fruit and a chocolate depth. Maturation runs slow and even in the on site dunnage warehouses at Aberlour. Long ageing turns the fresh notes towards date, prune and a dark, bittersweet chocolate. The full spirit deepens with time, the cask drawing out its darker register. The wood frames the spirit without ever stripping the full Speyside body.

At 59.5%, undiluted, it is dark and full. A deep, dark sweetness, with raisin, date and treacle from the cask. A baked apple and a warm cinnamon lift the middle. The finish runs long, full and warming. This is a dark, fruity Speyside single malt.