The Singleton of Glendullan Master’s Art

A distillery release of Glendullan, at 40%. Glendullan is a Speyside single malt, bottled by Diageo as the Singleton of Glendullan for the American market. It was built in 1897 by William Williams and Sons, Aberdeen blenders, the seventh and last distillery raised in Dufftown. It runs long fermentations and a slow distillation for a green, grassy, lightly fruity spirit. Its water rises at the Goats Well spring in the Conval Hills above the distillery.

It was distilled from unpeated malt, for the green, grassy make Glendullan is known for. It rested in ex-Bourbon oak, oak lactones lending a creamy vanilla. Carrying no age, soft vanillin and orchard fruit suggest a fair spell in oak. A light, clean texture from the spirit carries through the maturation. Active wood frames the fruit without ever crowding the light Speyside spirit. Maturation runs slow and even in the warehouses at Dufftown.

Reduced to 40%, it is mellow and fragrant. A clean, grassy sweetness with a floral lift, lifted by a soft oak. A green apple and a gentle citrus lift the middle. It finishes light, fresh and grassy. This is a light, grassy Speyside single malt.