Inchgower 21-year-old (D.1998, B.2019) Douglas Laing's Old Particular /51.5%/ 0.7l

Inchgower Distillery is based in the north Speyside town of Buckie.

In 1938, the plant became the property of Arthur Bell & Sons, and since then the whisky produced there has been one of the main components of Bell's blends. Today, both Arthur Bell & Sons and the Inchgower distillery are part of Diageo. Bell's is a global blender with sales exceeding 2.1 million cases (2021). Almost all of Inchgower's production (over 3 million liters per year) is consumed by Diageo blends, which is why the local single malt remains almost unknown. Inchgower presented here is a proposal of Douglas Laing & Co. in the Old Particular series. The whisky was distilled in January 1998, aged in a refill hogshead cask (DL 13510) for 21 years and bottled in August 2019 in an edition of 232 bottles.

Nose : mild and pleasantly spicy, vanilla, ginger, white pepper, strawberries, apples, rhubarb pie, milk fudge, brown sugar, notes of hay and oak.

Palate : honeyed breakfast cereal, vanilla, toffee, milk chocolate, Christmas fruit cake, grapes, apples, pears, notes of marzipan, ginger and oak tannins.

Finish : quite long, with notes of apples, sponge cake, white pepper, a bit of ginger and oak.