Glendronach 26 Years Old 1989

Single Cask – Batch 14

700ml / 54.8%

Single Malt

$1514

A 26 year old Glendronach from the distillery, at 54.8%. Raisin, chocolate and a warm spice run through it, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. By 1862 the largest duty paying distillery in the Highlands. Founded in 1826 by James Allardice near Huntly, in the eastern Highlands. This is the sherry led malt of Forgue.

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SKU GDR140 Categories Glendronach, Highlands, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey

Description

Glendronach from the distillery, a 26 year old, from 1989, cask 2662, at 54.8%, 557 bottles in all. Glendronach is a Highland single malt, founded in 1826 near Huntly in Aberdeenshire. It passed to Brown Forman, owner of Jack Daniel's, in 2016 as part of a 285 million pound deal. It was bought in 1920 by Charles Grant, a son of the founder of Glenfiddich. It joined William Teacher and Sons in 1960 and became a core malt of the Teacher's blend.

The spirit was drawn from a thick, heavy wash, for the rich, sherried make Glendronach is known for. It was matured in an Oloroso sherry butt, the wood working deep into the malt. Through the evaporative decades the esters fold into raisin, fig, beeswax and a bittersweet chocolate. Vanillin and oak lactones from the wood lend vanilla and a soft coconut over the fruit. The casks are picked closely, the wood matched to the rich Glendronach make.

At a natural 54.8% it is full and rich. Baked apple, honey and a dark chocolate, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Fig, honey and a dark chocolate fill the middle. It finishes long, full and fruity. This is a deep, sherried Highland single malt.