Product description
Glenugie Distillery (originally named Invernettie Distillery) was built by Donald McLeod & Co. in 1831.
After only a few years, the owners went bankrupt and the distillery was transformed into a brewery. Whisky production resumed in 1875, but it was not until the distillery was taken over in the 1930s by Seager Evans & Co. (soon renamed Long John International) that commercial success was achieved. The plant produced whisky for the Long John blend, but it was too small to survive the crisis in the industry at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. The last distillation took place in 1983. The whisky presented here, distilled on 20 December 1977 after basic maturation, was poured for 90 months into a butt no. 5 sherry cask. Bottled on 8 March 2010 by Signatory Vintage in the Decanter Collection series in an edition of 809 bottles.
Nose : dry rose petals, pears, tangerines, figs, raisins, passion fruit, milk chocolate, candied ginger, notes of furniture polish and a trace of smoke.
Palate : raisins, prunes, black cherries, honeydew melon, honey, cocoa, cinnamon, ginger, espresso, mixed dried herbs, notes of sherry and oak.
Finish : quite long, with notes of sherry, caramel, dark chocolate, cinnamon, dried fruit, a bit of mint and oak.