Glendronach 40 Years Old 1972

Single Cask – Batch 7

700ml / 49%

Single Malt

$14062

A 40 year old Glendronach from the distillery, at 49%. Deep and dark, all baked apple, honey and a chocolate, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. The last distillery in Scotland to fire its stills with coal, until 2005. Founded in 1826 by James Allardice near Huntly, in the eastern Highlands. This is a rich Highland malt of dried fruit and chocolate.

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SKU GDR274 Categories Glendronach, Highlands, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey

Description

A 40 year old Glendronach, a distillery bottling, from 1972, cask 710, at 49%, 356 bottles in all. Glendronach is a Highland single malt known for its heavy Oloroso and Pedro Ximenez sherry maturation. By 1862 it had grown into the largest duty paying distillery in the Highlands. It was bought in 2008 by Billy Walker's BenRiach company, who rebuilt it as a heavily sherried single malt. It was founded in 1826 by James Allardice, said to be the second man in Scotland to take a licence after the Excise Act of 1823.

The spirit was distilled in copper pot stills, building a deep malt of dried fruit and dark sugar. An Oloroso sherry butt held it, drawing the rich spirit on over the years. In its ethereal years the malt turns waxy and oxidative, faded esters and a whisper of sotolon over dark fruit. Long ageing turns the fresh notes towards date, prune and a dark, bittersweet chocolate.

Bottled at a cask strength 49%, it is deep and concentrated. Raisin, chocolate and a warm spice, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. A dark chocolate and a soft oak give it weight. It finishes long, full and fruity. This is a deep, sherried Highland single malt.

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Weight

1.6 kg