Product description
Linkwood Distillery was built in Elgin in 1821 by Peter Brown. In 1872 his son William demolished the original buildings and built a new distillery in their place.
In 1932, the plant was purchased by John McEwan & Co, whose assets were soon taken over by DCL, leaving it with a licence to produce Linkwood whisky; in 2010, John McEwan & Co. was officially dissolved. Today, Linkwood distills in three pairs of stills, producing 5.6 million litres of distillate, mainly for the needs of blends from the Diageo portfolio. The Linkwood 12 year old presented here is a whisky from another era, distilled in 1969, when the distillery operated a single pair of stills, spent 12 years in oak barrels, and then bottled by John McEwan & Co. at 43% abv. This whisky offers a short journey back in time, from a modern and efficient 21st century distillery, to a plant where most of the work was done by hand.
Aroma : fruity and floral, barley malt, spring meadow, apples, pears, bananas, gooseberries, beeswax, honey, vanilla, mint leaf and a fleeting hint of smoke.
Palate: sweet breakfast cereals, burnt toast, apples, gooseberries, quince jam, liquorice, walnuts, orange peel, honey, vanilla, candied ginger and oak.
Finish : quite long, waxy, with notes of ripe summer fruits, licorice, marzipan, a touch of ginger and oak.