Aultmore 10 Years Old 2010 Cask #800063 (Alistair Walker Whisky Company)

Bottled by Alistair Walker Whisky Company in 2020 as a 10 year old single cask release drawn from cask 800063 of 2010 vintage Aultmore with 240 bottles distributed to the Netherlands market at high cask strength of 58.5%. Alistair Walker is the eponymous independent bottling project of the former managing director of BenRiach, Glendronach, and Glenglassaugh, founded in 2017.

Distilled at the Aultmore distillery near Keith in Speyside, founded in 1896 by Alexander Edward and owned by Bacardi via John Dewar & Sons since 1998. The wash is made from unpeated plain malted barley with soft Auchinderran Burn water, mashed in a stainless steel full lauter mash tun and fermented for 56 hours in six larch wood washbacks. Aultmore runs the spirit through two wash and two spirit stills of plain pot still shape, with steam heated wash stills and shell and tube condensers giving high copper contact for a light, ester forward Speyside character. The spirit was filled into a single ex-Bourbon American oak cask for 10 year on site maturation.

Primary ester development sat alongside measured American oak extraction in temperate Speyside warehousing. Vanillin from lignin breakdown gave vanilla, cis and trans oak lactones added coconut and sweet wood, and char layer interaction produced furfural with Maillard derived caramelised sugars. Holding 58.5% across 10 years reflects steady evaporative loss, with American oak influence layered over Aultmore's signature light, ester forward profile.