Product description
Only a handful of distilleries can list a 50-year-old whisky on their CV, but in late autumn 2020 Glengoyne Distillery joined them.
The whisky was distilled in the late 1960s, shortly after the assets of the Lang Brothers distillery, long-time owners, were acquired by Robertson & Baxter (a previous incarnation of the Edrington Group) and a major refurbishment was carried out (including the installation of a third still). At the time, the world was reeling from the first heart transplant, the break-up of the Beatles and the presidency of Richard Nixon. The presentation of the whisky is as elegant as it is impressive – a crystal decanter engraved with the image of a goose (Glengoyne translates from Gaelic to “Valley of the Goose”) rests in an oak box with gilded fittings. Also included is a 25ml sample of the 50-year-old and a numbered and signed copy of the commemorative booklet by the distillery manager Robbie Hughes. The edition is limited to just 150 decanters. (Producer's tasting note.)
Aroma: Demerara sugar, walnuts, flavoured pipe tobacco, red apples and cloves.
Taste: rich, exploding in the mouth with the spiciness of oak balanced by the sweetness of molasses and toffee interwoven with notes of licorice.
Finish: A long, walk-through spice shop with a longer stop in the pepper section.