Inchgower 15 Years Old 2009 Cask #807069 (The Caskhound)

Inchgower sits on the Moray Firth coast outside Buckie, a Speyside distillery in name whose malt is salty and savoury in a way the region's usually are not. The Caskhound selected this single cask, distilled in 2009, and released it at 15 years old. Single cask 807069 gave 419 bottles, released for Germany.

The distillery's spirit is built for body rather than elegance, nutty and waxy with a coastal salt note unusual for Speyside. This bottling matured in an Oloroso sherry cask.

Bottled at its natural cask strength of 56.3%, without dilution, the Oloroso butt drives fig and date, the spirit's saline edge cutting through the sherry sweetness. At 15 years the wood and the salty, nutty spirit are roughly in balance.