Auchentoshan 29-year-old (D.1991, B.2021) Blackadder Raw Cask, The Nectar 15th Anniversary / 56.3% / 0.7l

Auchentoshan Distillery was built in 1823 on the outskirts of Glasgow (its buildings are situated between the Kilpatrick Hills and the River Clyde).

The plant has three stills and can produce around 2.5 million liters of distillate per year. It is also the only Scottish distillery using only three-stage distillation, and its so-called middle cut is very narrow - the collection of spirit begins at 82% abv and ends at 80%. In recent years, the brand's sales have been very dynamic, in 2020 it was 1.8 million bottles. The whisky presented here, distilled on October 28, 1991, spent 29 years in a hogshead cask no. 2917, and was bottled at cask strength (56.3% abv) in October 2021 in an edition of 100 bottles. This is the Blackadder International edition for the Belgian distributor The Nectar on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the business.

Nose: rich, raisins and sultanas, orange jam, dried figs and dates, honey, brown sugar, milk chocolate, coffee cake, notes of cinnamon, sherry and oak.

Taste: slightly oily, chocolate-coated raisins, honeyed almonds, apricots, figs, orange peel, cinnamon, allspice, black pepper and a trace of pipe tobacco.

Finish: quite long, with notes of sweet dried fruit, honey, cinnamon, cloves, a touch of pepper, sherry and oak.