Product description
Glenturret Distillery is based in Perthshire, in the southern Highlands. It has been producing whisky since 1775, making it the oldest Scottish distillery still in operation.
In spring 2019, Edrington Group sold the distillery to the Glenturret Holding joint venture, founded by Lalique Group and Swiss businessman Hansjörg Wyss, one of its main shareholders. The whisky’s presentation was soon changed, with official releases being bottled in elegant rectangular bottles inspired by Lalique’s design. The Glenturret presented here, distilled in March 2004, spent over 15 years in a puncheon sherry cask no. DL 13744, and bottled at 48.4% abv, unchill-filtered, by Douglas Laing & Co. in the Old Particular series in November 2019. The release consisted of 344 bottles.
Nose : toffee, crème brûlée, milk chocolate, sherry-soaked raisins, black cherries, plums, dried herbs, cinnamon, traces of cloves and oak.
Taste : milk chocolate, caramel, honey, cherries, raspberries, raisins and sultanas, banana cake, hazelnuts, notes of vanilla, cinnamon and oak.
Finish : quite long, with notes of honey, toffee, nuts, dried dates, raisins, cinnamon and toasted oak.