Glendronach 20 Years Old 1995 Cask #543

Single Cask – Batch 14

700ml / 54.6%

Single Malt

$641

A 20 year old Glendronach from the distillery, at 54.6%. Deep and dark, all baked apple, honey and a chocolate, with raisin, date and treacle from the cask. Known for heavy Oloroso and Pedro Ximenez sherry cask maturation. It matures on the Forgue site in traditional dunnage warehouses. This is a richly sherried Highland single malt.

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SKU GDR139 Categories Glendronach, Highlands, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey

Description

This official Glendronach, a 20 year old, from 1995, cask 543, at 54.6%, 689 bottles in all. Glendronach is a Highland single malt, founded in 1826 near Huntly in Aberdeenshire. It was bought in 2008 by Billy Walker's BenRiach company, who rebuilt it as a heavily sherried single malt.

The spirit was run slowly off the spirit still, giving a deep, full bodied Highland spirit. It was fully matured in a Pedro Ximenez sherry puncheon, the wood deep in the rich spirit. Through oxidative maturity the esters concentrate, the orchard notes turning to raisin, fig and a dark chocolate. Vanillin and oak lactones from the wood lend vanilla and a soft coconut over the fruit. The wood frames the spirit without ever stripping the full Highland body. Active first fill sherry wood drives the maturation, the cask deep in the malt. The casks are picked closely, the wood matched to the rich Glendronach make.

At 54.6%, undiluted, it is dark and full. Fig, walnut and a bittersweet chocolate, with raisin, date and treacle from the cask. A dark chocolate and a soft oak give it weight. The finish runs long, full and warming. This is a deep, sherried Highland single malt.