Product description
Built in 1963 by William Grant & Sons Girvan Distillery, it is a modern and highly efficient grain distillery capable of producing over 120 million litres of distillate per year.
While most grain distilleries use corn as their main grain input, Girvan’s formula lists 90% wheat and 10% malted barley. Single grain whiskies are considered second-rate to single malts by many, but in recent years interest in the category has grown. Distilled in November 2002, this whisky spent nearly two decades in a refill hogshead cask, DL 16489, and was bottled at 51.5% abv in Douglas Laing’s Old Particular series in September 2022. The run was 235 bottles.
Nose : honeyed cereals, toffee apples, vanilla, golden syrup, buttered toast, roasted peanuts, notes of cinnamon, ginger and oak.
Palate : brown sugar, vanilla, toffee, sponge cake, grapes, pears, apples, greengages, mocha, a pinch of nutmeg and light notes of nuts and oak.
Finish: medium long, with notes of vanilla, toffee, coconut flakes, banana bread, nutmeg and oak.