Glen Scotia Single Cask Selection Winter 2018 11 Years Old 2007

Single Cask Selection Winter 2018

700ml / 57.9%

Single Malt

$133

An 11 year old Glen Scotia from the distillery, at 57.9%. Oily and salted, with citrus, vanilla and a soft toffee, with red berry and a dry spice from the cask. On the Kintyre peninsula, on the west coast of Scotland. Glen Scotia is one of three Campbeltown distilleries, founded in 1832. This is an oily, coastal malt from the Kintyre coast.

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SKU GSC057 Categories Campbeltown, Glen Scotia, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey Brand: Glen Scotia

Description

An official release of Glen Scotia, an 11 year old, from 2007, cask 17/106-2, at 57.9%, 292 bottles in all. Glen Scotia is a Campbeltown single malt known for sea salt, oil and a salted toffee. It is one of only three working distilleries left in Campbeltown, with Springbank and Glengyle.

It was distilled slowly in a single pair of stills for an oily, coastal make, giving a coastal, briny Campbeltown spirit. It was matured in a Red Wine cask, the wood working into the oily malt. Through integration spirit and wood marry, vanillin settling into a rounded vanilla as ethyl esters lend a riper citrus and a salted toffee. Maturation in the Campbeltown warehouses, by the sea, lends a coastal edge. The maritime setting on the Kintyre coast threads salt and brine through the spirit. Its water is drawn from Crosshill Loch above the town.

At a natural 57.9% it is full and oily. Sea salt, oil and a salted toffee, with red berry and a dry spice from the cask. The texture is oily and coating, the fruit lifted by vanilla. The close is oily and salted, fruit over a gentle oak. This is a Campbeltown single malt of real character.