Glen Scotia 48 Years Old

Glen Scotia from the distillery, a 48 year old, at 40.8%. Glen Scotia is a Campbeltown single malt from a town once called the whisky capital of the world. Campbeltown, the Wee Toon, once held some thirty distilleries and was the whisky capital of the world.

It was worked through the stills for an oily, coastal make, for an oily spirit with a coastal, salted edge. An Oloroso cask held it, shaping the coastal spirit over the years. Ethereal and fragile, decades draw the oily malt to a waxy, briny delicacy of sotolon, dried fruit and old oak. Vanillin and oak lactones from the wood lend vanilla and coconut over the fruit. The Glen was added to the Scotia name around 1930, the distillery dating to 1832. A gentle maturation suits the oily make, the sea salt and toffee growing with time. It is one of only three working distilleries left in Campbeltown, with Springbank and Glengyle.

At 40.8% it is smooth and oily. Sea salt, oil and a salted toffee, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. A dried fruit and a soft oak give it depth. The finish is long, oily and salted. This is Glen Scotia's coastal, briny Campbeltown style.