Glenlochy 1979 (Bottled 2012) Rare Old Gordon & MacPhail / 46%/ 0.7l

RO/12/04

The Glenlochy Distillery operated from 1900 to 1983 in Fort William, adjacent to the Ben Nevis distillery.

Its construction coincided with the bankruptcy of Pattison's Ltd, which resulted in the closure of almost 30 distilleries and a long-term crisis in the industry. The DCL Group took over Glenlochy in 1953 and despite modernisation carried out in the 1970s, the plant with a capacity of less than 1 million litres of distillate per year could not withstand the effects of overproduction in the sector and closed in 1983. The Glenlochy 1979 old presented here is a proposal of Gordon & MacPhail in their Old Rare series (RO/12/04). The whisky was aged in refilled sherry hogshead casks and bottled in 2012 at 46% abv in an edition consisting of 460 bottles.

Aroma:  sandy beach, grass on the dunes, green apples and grapes, milk chocolate, ground pepper, a trace of ginger, notes of peat and oak.

Palate:  mild, apple pie with a pinch of cinnamon, buttered toast, hay, notes of salt and pepper, vanilla, oak and a fading note of smoke.

Finish:  quite long, grassy, ​​notes of hay, sea breeze, a bit of oak and a distant whiff of peat smoke.