New limiteds from Glasgow Distillery
Glasgow's first distillery in more than a century has announced two new limited special editions of its whisky.
Glasgow 1770 Golden Beer Cask Finish matured first in a first-fill bourbon barrel. However, the final maturation phase was spent in a Pedro Ximénez sherry hogshead barrel, in which the beer from the Innis & Gunn brewery had previously been stored for 3 months. Edition limited to 356 bottles, contains the beverage in cask strength form (58.5% vol.), bottled in its purest form - no cold filtration and no added caramel. The price of a single bottle is £59.
The whisky finished in a Scottish beer barrel in the aroma offers, according to the producer, notes of dark fruits, toffee, creamy vanilla, beeswax, and cookie dough. In taste we should find notes of dark berries, plums, passion fruit, roasted malt, toffee and fudge.
Glasgow 1770 Tokaji Cask Finish also began the maturation process in a bourbon barrel, but in its case, the last 18 months of maturation were spent in a Hungarian tokai barrel. The beverage has a strength of 58.1% vol., and, like beer cask whisky, it went into bottles without added caramel and without cold filtering. The contents of the barrel were enough to fill only 210 bottles, each costing £59.
The whisky from a tokai cask in aroma offers (here we also cite the producer) notes of orange peel, dried apples, sultanas raisins, almonds, compote peaches and English sauce. In the taste you will find notes of beeswax, butter cookies, vanilla, fresh mango, pineapple and apricot jam.
The Glasgow Distillery is the first malt whisky plant to be launched in Glasgow after a gap of more than a century in terms of the presence of a malt whisky producer in the city. It was launched in 2015, and its market success has entailed expansion and doubling of production capacity as early as 2019. Glasgow Distillery produces both peated and peatless whisky. As such, they are bottled under the name 1770, a reference to the founding date of Glasgow's first distillery, Dundashill. The core offering is rounded out by a triple distilled whisky, 1770 Triple Distilled. In this respect, the Glasgow distillery is among an elite group of literally a handful of Scottish malt whisky producers that distill three times. The others are naturally Auchentoshan, where the entire production is distilled three times, Springbank (three times distilled Hazelburn) and Benromach. The Rosebank distillery, which is in the final stages of renovation, also promises to maintain the Lowlands' signature three-distillation regime.
Initially, the whisky produced at the Glasgow distillery was offered in 500 ml bottles, but over time, when the plant had had both the most difficult start-up period (at least three years before the first whisky can be bottled and sold) and market success, the capacity of the bottles offered was changed to the customary 700 ml, while keeping the price the same.
The Glasgow distillery also produces the critically acclaimed Makar gin, as well as G52 vodka, and Banditti Club rum.
[08.12.2022 / photo: Glasgow Distillery]