Aultmore 14 Years Old 2011 Cask #3 (Signatory)

Bottled by Signatory Vintage in 2025 as a 14 year old single cask release drawn from cask 3 of 2011 vintage Aultmore with 344 bottles distributed to the French market at high cask strength of 61.7%. Signatory Vintage was founded in 1988 by Andrew Symington and is one of Scotland's leading independent bottlers, operating Edradour Distillery in Pitlochry alongside its bottling business.

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 Pedro Ximenez sherry cask for 14 year on site maturation.

Patient cask interaction drove European oak Pedro Ximenez chemistry. Ellagitannins and gallic acid from the European oak build dried walnut and grip, while extended fermentation residues drive high concentrations of sotolon, lending dried fig, raisin, and dark molasses. Glycerol carryover from the sweet sherry adds body, integrating with Aultmore's underlying light ester signature at 61.7%.