Glenesk 1979 (Bottled 2013) Rare Old, Gordon & MacPhail / 46%/ 0.7l
- Glenesk Distillery operated in Montrose, Eastern Highlands, from 1897 to 1985. Its history is bit confusing, it changed names at least five times and switched form malt to grain whisky production more than once.
Product description
Glenesk Distillery, based in Montrose in the Eastern Highlands, operated from 1897 to 1985 and has a history of changing its name five times and producing alternating malt and grain whiskies.
Over the years it has operated as: North Esk, Highland Esk, Montrose, Hillside, and finally Glenesk. Currently, the distillery is home to a malthouse belonging to Boormalt, the fifth largest malt producer in the world. In the 1960s, Glenesk was a key malt in the VAT 69 blend formula. Glenesk 1979 is Gordon & MacPhail's offering in the prestigious Rare Old series (RO/13/04). The whisky comes from a regenerated, refilled hogshead cask made of white American oak, the contents of which amounted to 238 bottles.
Aroma : fragrant, malty and fruity notes, cooked apples and plums, gooseberries, honey, vanilla, cotton candy, traces of hay and toasted oak.
Taste: fruity with a hint of spice, oranges, strawberries, bananas, vanilla, milk chocolate, pepper, nutmeg, cashews, traces of eucalyptus and oak.
Finish : quite long, fruity, with a strong oak bitterness and a distant whiff of peat smoke.
RO/13/04