Product description
Banff Distillery, located in the Eastern Highlands, produced whisky from 1824 to 1983.
It was a small distillery with a production capacity of around 900 thousand litres of alcohol per year, too old to withstand the crisis in the industry at the turn of the 70s and 80s. The remains of the buildings fell victim to a fire in 1991, destroying the last evidence of the fact that the plant had been the largest employer in the area for over 100 years. The Banff 18 years old presented here is a proposal of the oldest publisher of Scotch whisky, Wm Cadenhead Ltd., a company founded in 1842 in Aberdeen by George Duncan. His brother-in-law, William Cadenhead (a poet, by the way) joined in 1858, and after Duncan's death christened the company with his own name. In 1972 Wm Cadenhead Ltd. was bought at auction by the owner of Springbank, J. & A. Mitchell & Co., who moved its headquarters to Campbeltown.
Aroma: fruity and grassy, summer meadow, apples, pears, gooseberries, green tea, vanilla, caramel, white pepper, notes of pencil shavings, hay and peat.
Taste : consistent with the aroma, ripe apples, peaches, mirabelle jam, vanilla, cinnamon, licorice, white pepper, notes of pine needles, hay and oak.
Finish : medium long, with notes of summer fruits, vanilla, caramel, white pepper, lemongrass, peat and oak.