Strathearn Single Cask 3 Years Old 2014

This official Strathearn single malt, a Single Cask bottling, a 3 year old Highland malt distilled in 2014, from cask 27 and bottled at 56%. The outturn was 84 bottles. Strathearn was built in 2013 by Tony Reeman-Clark, a forerunner of Scotland's new wave of craft distilleries. Fermentations run very long, up to six days, to draw out plenty of flavour.

Distilled in miniature alembic stills on Loch Turret water, building the individual Strathearn character. A small ex-Bourbon cask shaped it, lending vanilla and honey fast. Only a few years old, it is fresh and bold, the tiny casks working hard. A very long fermentation builds the fruity esters that the small stills concentrate. Water is drawn from Loch Turret, the distillery set in a 160 year old farm steading. Douglas Laing, the Glasgow bottler behind Big Peat and Scallywag, bought it in 2019. It was the independent bottler Douglas Laing's first ever owned distillery.

At 56%, undiluted, it is rich and vivid. The ex-Bourbon lends vanilla and honey over a fruity, oily young spirit. It is vibrant and deep, the young spirit shining through. A vibrant, oaky finish lingers. This is a bold craft malt from a tiny Perthshire distillery.