Glen Scotia Vintage Release No. 1 18 Years Old 2000

An official release of Glen Scotia, an 18 year old, from 2000, cask 175, at 46%, 1200 bottles in all. Glen Scotia is a Campbeltown single malt known for sea salt, oil and a salted toffee. It sits on High Street in Campbeltown, on the Kintyre peninsula on the west coast.

It was run through the stills and shell and tube condensers on Crosshill Loch water, building a maritime character of sea salt and oil. A bourbon barrel held it, the wood adding a light vanilla over the brine. At oxidative maturity vanillin and lactones are fully expressed, the salty, oily malt deepening. The cool, salt laden Campbeltown air gives a slow, coastal maturation in the warehouses. Vanillin and oak lactones from the wood lend vanilla and coconut over the fruit. Active wood frames the fruit without overwhelming the briny Campbeltown spirit. Its malt comes from Greencore Maltings in southwest Scotland.

Bottled at 46%, it is rounded. Citrus, salt and a soft vanilla, with a soft vanilla from the oak. The mouthfeel is oily, the fruit carried on a briny body. A briny finish ends on citrus and a soft oak. This is the oily, salted malt of the Wee Toon.