Glenallachie 14 Years Old

This official GlenAllachie, a 14 year old, at 54.2%. GlenAllachie is a Speyside single malt, revived in 2017 by the team of Billy Walker. It was mothballed in 1985 and reopened in 1989, a modern distillery by Speyside standards. It was built by Mackinlay McPherson, the firm that supplied whisky to Shackleton's 1907 expedition. It was designed almost entirely gravity fed, an efficient plant for its time. It matures its spirit in sixteen dunnage warehouses on the distillery site at Aberlour.

Worked unhurried through the stillhouse, for a thick, ester rich spirit the casks then deepen. An Oloroso cask held it, drawing the rich spirit on over the years. By the integrating teens the raw notes fade and esters build, the rich spirit growing rounder and darker. The full bodied spirit takes active wood well, carrying its dark sugars through the years.

Bottled at a cask strength 54.2%, it is deep and concentrated. Date, fig and a warm cinnamon, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. A dark chocolate and a soft oak give it weight. A deep finish ends on dried fruit and a dark chocolate. This is a rich, sherried Speyside single malt.