Old Pulteney 12 Years Old

This official Old Pulteney single malt, a 12 year old and bottled at 40%. Pulteney was founded in 1826 in Pulteneytown on Scotland's far northern shore, and it remains one of the most northerly distilleries on the mainland. Wick was once the herring capital, its fortunes built on silver fish and golden whisky.

The spirit was drawn off the flat topped wash still and boil ball spirit still that give the make its body, and matured by the shore, where sea air works into the wood. It was matured in refill ex-Bourbon oak, the backbone of the Pulteney style. Past a decade the honey and wax build, knitting with the coastal salt. The cool, damp northern climate slows maturation, letting the spirit take wood gently over many years. Wick built its fortune on herring and whisky, the silver and the gold of the north. Everything once moved by sea here, barley in and casks out across the North Sea. The water runs from Loch Hempriggs along a lade Thomas Telford laid in 1807.

At 40% it is smooth and honeyed. Sea air, citrus and salt meet soft vanilla from the cask. Beneath it run honey, citrus and a waxy weight. It closes long, salty and honeyed. This is the maritime malt of Scotland's far north.