Glenburgie 5 Years Old

This official Glenburgie, a 5 year old, at 40%. Glenburgie is a Speyside single malt, owned by Chivas Brothers and one of the larger Speyside distilleries. It was expanded to six stills after the rebuild, one of the bigger distilleries in the group. Its water is drawn from a local spring near the distillery.

It was worked unhurried through the stillhouse, for a soft, fruity spirit with a waxy thread. An ex-Bourbon barrel shaped it, vanillin and a soft coconut under the malt. In these extractive early years the oak gives vanillin as vanilla and lactones as coconut over apple, pear and fresh grass. Years in oak deepen the spirit to old gold, the body growing rounder and waxier with time. The spirit deepens with time, the cask drawing out a soft beeswax. Built for the blender's art, the make ages with quiet grace as a single malt. A soft waxiness from the spirit carries a thread through the maturation.

At 40% it is bright, waxy and soft. Apple, pear and fresh cut grass, with a gentle oak sweetness. It is soft and gently waxy, the light spirit shining through. It finishes light, fresh and faintly waxy. This is a Speyside single malt of real lightness.