Product description
Wm Grant & Sons is one of the very few companies, which stared as distillers before making their fortune as blenders.
William Grant started distillation in Glenfiddich Distillery in 1887, five years later opened Balvenie Distillery and soon after launched his blended whisky brand, Grant’s Standfast, using the clan’s battle cry “Stand fast Craigellachie!” in its name. In 1963 the company built their own grain whisky distillery Girvan in Ayrshire, which after several upgrades produces 120 million liters of spirit per annum. Grant’s has been ranked number three best-selling blended Scotch whisky selling annually over four million cases. Grant’s 12 years old has been part of the core range for about half a century. The Royal expression was produced in the 1980s for Travel Retail and export markets.
Nose: fruity, prunes, cherries, raisins, honey, vanilla, butterscotch, mocha, white pepper, touch of ginger, hints of potpourri, and a wisp of smoke.
Taste: sweet and fruity, honeyed cereals, caramel, red berries, Damson jam, raisins, milk chocolate, dash of cinnamon, and toasted oak.
Finish: pretty long, with notes of honey, vanilla, sweet dried fruits, dash of pepper, cinnamon and oak.