Glen Spey 25 Years Old 1991 Cask #2533 (Gordon & Company)

This Glen Spey was bottled by Gordon and Company, a 25 year old, distilled in 1991, from cask 2533, at 49.5%, one of 291 bottles. Glen Spey is a Speyside single malt, one of five distilleries in the town of Rothes. The distillery is said to be watched over by the ghost of a soldier who died on the site. It was bottled as a single malt in Diageo's Flora and Fauna range in 2001, one of its rare official outings.

Worked unhurried through the stillhouse, building a light, fragrant spirit with a thread of nuttiness. It rested in ex-Bourbon oak, oak lactones lending a soft vanilla and coconut. In the oxidative, evaporative years the spirit concentrates to tropical fruit, honey and a waxy, nutty depth. A light oiliness carries a waxy thread through the long, slow maturation. Maturation in the racked warehouses is slow and even, the Speyside air cool and steady.

At a hearty 49.5% it carries real weight. Green grass, light honey and a nutty malt, over a gentle, creamy oak. The body is light and clean, the fruit lifted by a gentle oak. Green apple, grass and a soft oak see it out. This is a light, grassy Speyside single malt.