Product description
Strathclyde Distillery was built in Glasgow in 1927 by London gin producer Seager Evans.
In 1936, the company joined the whisky producers by purchasing the Long John brand. From 1957 to 1975, a single malt whisky, Kinclaith, was also distilled at Strathclyde. Since 2005, the plant has belonged to Chivas Bros., a subsidiary of Pernod Ricard, and equipped with two distillation columns, it produces 40 million liters of grain distillate intended for the company's blends, including Chivas Regal and Ballantine's. The Strathclyde 2005 Vintage presented here comes from a refilled bourbon cask no. DL 15406, and was bottled at 48.4% abv without chill filtration in November 2021 in the Douglas Laing's Old Particular series. The edition consisted of 246 bottles.
Nose: sweet breakfast cereals, vanilla, honey, butter cookies, coconut flakes, orange and lemon peel, notes of cinnamon, cloves and oak.
Palate : vanilla, milkshake, honey cereal, orange zest, grapefruit, white pepper, cinnamon, ginger and a fleeting trace of smoke.
Finish : medium long, with notes of vanilla, toffee, cereal, baked apples, cinnamon and toasted oak.