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Single cask Imperial matured in an ex-Oloroso sherry butt, distilled in 1998 and bottled by Gordon & MacPhail at 16 years old. 276 bottles, 50% cask strength, from a Speyside distillery closed since 1998.
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Imperial ceased distilling in 1998 and the buildings at Carron were demolished in 2013, so every remaining bottle draws on spirit laid down before that final silence. This single cask was filled in 1998 and bottled by Gordon & MacPhail at 16 years old, for its Exclusive range. Single cask number 1224 yielded 276 bottles.
Imperial ran four large copper pot stills at Carron and made a fruity Speyside spirit that mostly went into blends such as Teacher's and Ballantine's. This bottling matured in an ex-Oloroso sherry butt. Across 16 years, Oloroso is a fully oxidised sherry, so the wood entered the cask loaded with polyphenols and melanoidins, the latter reading as fig and raisin.
Bottled at its natural cask strength of 50%, without dilution, the ex-Oloroso wood gives dried fruit and a walnut dryness drawn from its tannins, with a leather and cocoa edge from slow oxidation. Recorded bottle notes run to seasoned oak. Imperial's esters persist underneath as stewed orchard fruit, into a dry, nutty finish.
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