Glen Scotia 10 Years Old (56.1%)

Glen Scotia from the distillery, a 10 year old, at 56.1%. Glen Scotia is a Campbeltown single malt from a town once called the whisky capital of the world. It is one of only three working distilleries left in Campbeltown, with Springbank and Glengyle.

The spirit was worked through the stills for an oily, coastal make, for an oily spirit with a coastal, salted edge. A Red Wine cask held it, shaping the coastal spirit over the years. By the integrating teens congeners fade and esters build, the salty, oily spirit growing rounder. The oily, coastal spirit shows the cask clearly, vanilla and brine to the fore. The maritime setting on the Kintyre coast threads salt and brine through the spirit. It was founded in 1832 as Scotia, one of the survivors of Campbeltown's Victorian whisky boom. The Glen was added to the Scotia name around 1930, the distillery dating to 1832.

Bottled at a cask strength 56.1%, it is rich. Salt, citrus and a soft toffee, with red berry and a dry spice from the cask. It is oily and briny, the coastal spirit shining through. The finish is long, oily and salted. This is an oily, coastal malt from the Kintyre coast.