Product description
Craigellachie Distillery is situated in the heart of Speyside, on a hilltop overlooking the confluence of two rivers – the Fiddich and Spey.
The plant has been producing whisky since 1891, and currently has two pairs of stills that produce 4 million liters of distillate per year. Craigellachie is the main component of Dewar's, White Horse and William Lawson's blends, which consume the lion's share of production. Until the end of the first decade of the new century, the local single malt remained almost unknown, and it was not until 2014 that the owner, John Dewar & Sons, a Bacardi subsidiary, brought the whisky to the world's attention with a broad Last Great Malts of Scotland marketing campaign. The Craigellachie presented here, distilled on September 19, 1995, was released as Batch CR 1995 in an edition of 5,400 bottles.
Nose: peaches, pineapples, grapefruits, orange peel, baked apples, grilled vegetables, white pepper, a touch of vanilla, forest floor, notes of cedar, tobacco and a fleeting trace of sulfur.
Taste: fruity and herbal, oranges, grapefruits, nectarines, peaches, green tea, milk chocolate, white pepper, herbal mixture, oak and a trace of a lit match.
Finish: fairly long, with notes of zesty citrus, white pepper, lemongrass, oak tannins and a trace of sulfur.