Glendronach 23 Years Old 1993 Cask #447 (LMDW)

Single Cask

700ml / 51.7%

Single Malt

$666

This Glendronach was bottled by La Maison du Whisky, a 23 year old, at 51.7%, a festival bottling. Deep and dark, all baked apple, honey and a chocolate, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Bought in 1920 by Charles Grant, a son of Glenfiddich’s founder. The last distillery in Scotland to fire its stills with coal, until 2005. This is the sherry led malt of Forgue.

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SKU GDR133 Categories Glendronach, Highlands, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey

Description

La Maison du Whisky bottled this Glendronach, a 23 year old, distilled in 1993, from cask 447, at 51.7%, one of the festival bottlings. Glendronach is a Highland single malt whose founder was an early champion of sherry cask maturation. It was bought in 2008 by Billy Walker's BenRiach company, who rebuilt it as a heavily sherried single malt. It was mothballed in 1996 and lay silent until production resumed in 2002. By 1862 it had grown into the largest duty paying distillery in the Highlands.

Worked unhurried through the stillhouse, for the rich, sherried make Glendronach is known for. Maturation came in an Oloroso sherry butt, layered over the full Glendronach make. At this evaporative stage ellagitannins lend structure while oxidation builds a richer raisin and treacle. The wood frames the spirit without ever stripping the full Highland body.

At a natural 51.7% it is full and rich. A rich orchard sweetness and dark sugar, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. The body is full and rich, the fruit deep and dark. Dried fruit, spice and a soft oak see it out. This is Glendronach's deep, fruity Highland style.