The Glasgow Distillery Co. 1770 Glasgow Peated – Cask Strength Cask #Batch 02

This official 1770 Glasgow single malt, drawn from cask Batch 02 and bottled at 60.7%. Only 1000 bottles were released. The Glasgow Distillery Company, set up in 2012 in Hillington, was Glasgow's first malt distillery in over a hundred years. Water comes from Loch Katrine, and the whisky is bottled without chill filtration and at natural colour.

Distilled from peated malt for the Rich and Smoky style, building the Rich and Smoky house style. A sherry cask held it, the wood lending raisin and walnut. The cool, damp Glasgow warehouse gives a steady maturation. Founders Liam Hughes and Mike Hayward set out to bring single malt back to the city. The stills are named for the founders' families and for the MacDonald artist sisters. A young distillery, it leans on active wood to bring its whisky to life quickly.

Bottled at a cask strength 60.7%, it is intense. A smoky, sweet fruitiness lead, and the Pedro Ximenez lends raisin, date and treacle, and the virgin oak gives vanilla, baking spice and a little coconut. A green apple and a warm spice lift it. A smoky, gently spiced finish lingers. This is a smoky young Lowland malt from Glasgow.