The Lindores Distilling Co. Ltd. Lindores Abbey 2018 Cask #18/483

This official Lindores Abbey single malt, a 4 year old release from 2018, drawn from cask 18/483 and bottled at 62.1%. The outturn was 294 bottles. Lindores Abbey Distillery sits at Newburgh in Fife, on the site where the first written record of Scotch whisky was made in 1494. It was built in 2017 by Drew and Helen McKenzie Smith, whose family has held the Lindores land since 1913.

The spirit was run through copper pot stills fed by water from the abbey land, to build a textured, fruity character. An ex-Bourbon barrel shaped it, American oak under the fruit. Bottled without chill filtration, the texture stays full and the cask speaks clearly. The Casks of Lindores range shows the spirit in bourbon, sherry and STR red wine wood. The abbey ruins still stand beside the modern distillery buildings. The bottle shape is drawn from a 12th century pillar found in the abbey ruins.

Bottled at a cask strength 62.1%, it is intense. The ex-Bourbon lends vanilla, orchard fruit and butterscotch. It is rich and fruity, the young spirit shining through. Stone fruit and butterscotch draw out the close. This is Lindores Abbey's layered young single malt.