Ardnamurchan 11 Years Old 2014 AD/12.14 CK.429

Distilled in December 2014 as part of batch AD/12.14 and bottled in 2025 from single cask CK.429, this is an 11 Years Old Ardnamurchan from an American oak hogshead seasoned with Oloroso sherry. The release was bottled at 58.2% ABV without dilution as an event exclusive, one of the longest aged single casks from Glenbeg.

Production followed Ardnamurchan's standard regime. Concerto barley was milled into a copper topped semi lauter mash tun, fermented 72 to 120 hours on a single strain distiller's yeast, then double distilled through copper pot stills with reflux boil balls to a new make of 74 to 76% ABV. Spirit was filled at 63.5% into a single American oak hogshead seasoned with Oloroso sherry and matured on site at Glenbeg in dunnage warehousing for eleven years.

An American oak hogshead seasoned with Oloroso sherry combines the brighter vanillin and lactone signature of American oak with the rancio chemistry of an Oloroso prior fill. Polyphenol and aldehyde oxidation during the sherry's life imprints dried fruit and nutty character into the wood that crosses into the spirit during maturation. At eleven years the cask interaction sits at the deeper end of Ardnamurchan maturation, with Maillard products driving honey and toasted register. Peated phenols (guaiacol, syringol, 4 methylguaiacol from St Fergus Highland peat at 30 to 35 ppm) from the peated portion of the split production integrate as smoke backbone.