Glengoyne 1967 Winter Distillation (Bottled1996) / 47.7%/ 0.7l
- Glengoyne Distillery was founded in 1833 by the Edmonstone family and licensed under the name of Burnfoot Distillery.
Product description
In 1833 the Edmonstone family built the Burnfoot Distillery, now Glengoyne.
The conventional boundary between the Highlands and the Lowlands runs through the property, meaning that the distilling buildings are ‘on the highlands’ and the maturing warehouses ‘on the lowlands’. The last change of ownership took place in 2003, when Ian Macleod Distillers bought it from the Edrington Group, along with its whisky stocks, for £7.2m. The Glengoyne on display here, distilled in the winter of 1967, two years after the distillery was taken over by Robertson & Baxter, was bottled at 47.7% abv after nearly 30 years of maturation in oak casks.
Nose : rich, honey, toffee, pralines, pears, apricots, passion fruit, orange jam, walnuts, cinnamon, cloves, a touch of lemongrass, vanilla and oak.
Taste : fruity and spicy, toffee, honey-roasted almonds, milk chocolate, dried apricots and figs, blood oranges, plums, pears, cinnamon, nutmeg, candied ginger and oak.
Finish: quite long, with notes of honey, milk chocolate, raisins, plums, almonds, mulled wine spice and oak.