Auchroisk 12 Years Old 2011 Cask #809256 (Global Whisky Limited)

Bottled by Global Whisky Limited in 2024 as a 12 year old single cask release, drawn from cask 809256 of 2011 vintage Auchroisk with 284 bottles distributed to the German market at cask strength of 56.6%. Global Whisky is a German independent bottling project focused on hand selected single cask releases at natural strength, with selections drawn from across Scottish distilleries.

Distilled in 2011 at the Mulben distillery built by Justerini & Brooks in 1974, the wash was made from 100% unpeated malted barley with soft Dorie's Well water and fermented for around 53 hours in stainless steel washbacks. Auchroisk runs the spirit through four wash and four spirit stills with constricted lyne arms, encouraging high reflux that returns heavier compounds back to the pot. Shell and tube condensers give further copper contact, stripping sulphur compounds, with the spirit collected at around 70% ABV and filled into a single Amontillado sherry cask.

Twelve years in Amontillado conditions drove distinctive transitional sherry character into the lighter Speyside base. Amontillado begins as Fino under flor yeast, then completes maturation oxidatively after flor death, driving high concentrations of acetaldehyde and benzaldehyde. The result brings almond, hazelnut, dried apricot, and polished wood, integrated with the spirit's underlying light ester signature at 56.6%.