Artistic Glen Scotia
Glen Scotia Distillery has just announced the release of a new edition of the 30-year-old whisky. In addition to the solid age of the liquor, the new edition draws attention to its labels, prepared with artwork by Alice Angus.
Glen Scotia 30yo The Alice Angus Spirit Safe Collection is a whisky with a strength of 47.3% vol., matured in European oak barrels. It was distilled in 1989, that is, shortly after the reopening of the distillery after a production shutdown of several years, a change of ownership and modernization to meet the demands of the emerging single malt whisky market. The whisky has lain in barrels for a full three decades.
The new whisky has received as many as four graphic faces, each using one of the images painted by Alice Angus, the Glen Scotia distillery's artist-in-residence. Four different labels and high-quality outer packaging were prepared, with 120 bottles for each, meaning that the entire edition consists of 480 bottles. The individual pieces of the collection are accompanied by graphics prepared by Alice Angus during her several months' stay in Campbeltown, depicting the various stages of whisky production at the Glen Scotia distillery. So we have the image "First Water," referring to the mashing stage, "Heart of the Run," depicting distillation, "Labour of Years" with oak barrels in storage, and "Time and Tide" with a general view of the distillery building.
According to Iain MacAlister, distillery manager and master distiller of the plant, the new 30-year-old is a whisky full of flavor and personality, offering notes of fresh apples, touches of ginger, sweetness and sea saltiness.
Glen Scotia 30yo The Alice Angus Spirit Safe Collection will soon be available in the distillery's on-site store and in some specialty aged spirits stores. The retail price for a single bottle is set at £2,000.
Glen Scotia is currently one of three active whisky distilleries in the Campbeltown region. Founded in 1832, the distillery has survived the region's vicissitudes and hardships, which led the vast majority of the once 30-plus whiskey factories to close down. Fortune has not always favored the Campbeltown High Street distillery, there have been numerous periods of downtime. The last such period ended in 1999, and the marketing activity that began in the new millennium has meant that today Glen Scotia is treated on a par with the region's other distilleries.
Campbeltown, once nearly extinct and by far the smallest whisky-producing region in Scotland, expects to double the number of distilleries in the near future. The currently operating Glen Scotia, Glengyle and Springbank will be joined in the foreseeable future by three new ones - Dal Riata, Machrihanish and Witchburn.
The House of Whisky Online offers a whole range of interesting editions of Glen Scotia, including some interesting collectible bottles. Please visit.
[27.07.2023 / Photo: Glen Scotia]