SPEY Royal Choice

700ml / 46%

Single Malt

$276

Speyside Distillery, hand built near Kingussie, from the distillery, at 46%. Honeyed and fragrant, showing green apple, pear and honey. A light, fruity Speyside malt. One of Scotland’s smallest distilleries. Gentle Highland fruit and honey. Smooth, gentle and quietly made. A dram from the upper Spey. Honeyed orchard fruit throughout.

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SKU SPD035 Categories Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Speyside, Whiskey Brand: Speyside

Description

This Speyside Distillery single malt, an official release and bottled at 46%. Just 3194 bottles were filled. Set near Kingussie in the upper Spey valley, the Speyside Distillery was hand built near Kingussie and first run in 1990. It is the most southerly of the Speyside distilleries, nearest of all to the source of the Spey.

It was worked slowly through short stills to keep the spirit light, for the light, fruity Speyside make the distillery is known for. It rested in ex-Bourbon oak, the wood adding a light honeyed sweetness. Without an age statement, the malt is clean, fruity and gently honeyed. Maturation in the Highland air gives a clean, unhurried development. Quality over quantity has always been the watchword of this tiny distillery. George Christie bought the land in 1956, dreaming of his own small malt distillery. A stonemason, Alex Fairlie, laid every stone of the distillery by hand over some twenty years.

At an easy 46% it is gentle. A light, fruity sweetness meet honeyed oak sweetness underneath. Beneath it run apple, honey and a soft spice. The close is soft, fruit over gentle oak. This is a light, fruity Speyside single malt.