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Signatory Vintage, the Edinburgh house that bottles at Edradour above Pitlochry, bottled this Glencraig, a 29 year old, at 52.5%. Full and oily, all baked apple and a thick honey. Its Lomond stills ran from 1958 to 1981, giving a fuller, oilier spirit. Made for blending and rarely bottled, it survives mostly via independents. This is the heavier, oily make of the distillery.
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This Glencraig was bottled by Signatory Vintage, a 29 year old, distilled in 1975, from cask 7936, at 52.5%, one of 154 bottles. Glenburgie is a Speyside single malt, this a richer, weightier spirit than the usual. It was expanded to six stills after the rebuild, one of the bigger distilleries in the group.
Run off the stills with their adjustable necks, giving a heavier, waxier Speyside spirit. A refill bourbon hogshead held it, keeping the fresh, fruity character to the fore. In the oxidative, evaporative years the spirit concentrates to tropical fruit, honey and a waxy, candle wax depth. The spirit deepens with time, the cask drawing out a soft beeswax. Built for the blender's art, the make ages with quiet grace as a single malt. Years in oak deepen the spirit to old gold, the body growing rounder and waxier with time. First fill wood drives the maturation, the cask clear in the spirit.
Bottled at a cask strength 52.5%, it is concentrated. Apple, wax and a deeper honey, lifted by a soft oak. Pear, wax and a rich honey fill the middle. The finish is rounded, fruity and waxy. This is a malt of real oily weight.
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