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Old Pulteney from Wick, a 23 year old, from 1990 from the distillery, at 46%. Oily and coastal, with sherried walnut and dried fruit. Clean, salty and honeyed. Matured by the North Sea at Wick. The far north in a glass. Brine, beeswax and bright fruit. A rounded, oily northern malt. Salt spray and soft honey. Distilled at the top of the mainland.
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A distillery bottling of Old Pulteney, a 23 year old from 1990 and bottled at 46%. Pulteney, founded in 1826 by James Henderson in Pulteneytown, Wick, it has been the maritime malt of Caithness ever since. Old Pulteney is known the world over as the Maritime Malt.
It was worked through Pulteney's boil ball stills, fed by Loch Hempriggs, before long maturation by the sea drew in its coastal character. Maturation in Oloroso sherry laid salted dried fruit over the coastal spirit. Beyond eighteen years the malt grows deep and oily, honey turning to dried fruit over soft brine. The spirit takes colour and sweetness slowly in the cool far north. The spirit carries an oily weight unusual among Highland malts. Wick's herring fleet once numbered in the thousands at the height of the boom. Slow distillation in the squat stills builds the malt's rounded, waxy body.
At an approachable 46% it is balanced. The Oloroso brings salted dried fruit, fig and walnut, and brine and a honeyed wax sit alongside light vanilla from the refill oak. A crisp apple and a sea salt edge lift it. A waxy, coastal finish lingers long. This is the seaside style that made the distillery's name.
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