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An official Glendronach, an 8 year old, at 45.4%. Deep and dark, all baked apple, honey and a chocolate. 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. By 1862 the largest duty paying distillery in the Highlands. This is a full bodied Highland single malt of real richness.
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Description
Glendronach from the distillery, an 8 year old, at 45.4%. Glendronach is a Highland single malt, long a blending malt and now a sherry led name in its own right. It ferments in Oregon pine washbacks over long fermentations for a full, fruity spirit. The distillery was an early champion of sherry cask maturation, its malt charming Edinburgh society from the start.
Run slowly off the spirit still, shaping a rich Highland body with real weight. An ex-Bourbon barrel shaped it, vanillin and a soft coconut under the malt. At an extractive age eugenol lends a clove note and lactones a coconut, the spirit rich, fruity and full. Long ageing turns the fresh notes towards date, prune and a dark, bittersweet chocolate. The full spirit deepens with time, the cask drawing out its darker register. Active first fill sherry wood drives the maturation, the cask deep in the malt.
At 45.4% it is rich, fruity and deep. A rich orchard sweetness and dark sugar, lifted by a sweet oak. Beneath it run dried fruit, dark sugar and a warm spice. A long finish carries raisin, chocolate and a treacle. This is a deep, sherried Highland single malt.
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