Craigellachie 15 year old (D.2007, B.2022) Exceptional Cask Series / 57% / 0.7l

Craigellachie Distillery is situated in the heart of Speyside, on a hilltop overlooking the confluence of two rivers – the Fiddich and Spey.

The plant has been producing whisky since 1891, and currently has two pairs of stills that produce 4 million liters of distillate per year. Craigellachie is the main component of Dewar's, White Horse and William Lawson's blends, which consume the lion's share of production. Until recently, the local single malt remained almost unknown, and it was not until 2014 that the owner, Bacardi's John Dewar & Sons, drew the world's attention to this whisky with a broad Last Great Malts of Scotland marketing campaign. The Exceptional Cask Series soon made its debut. The whisky presented here, distilled on May 25, 2007, spent 15 years in an Oloroso sherry cask no. 8951. Bottled at 57% abv on October 3, 2022 in an edition of 372 bottles.

Nose : lots of sherry, rum-soaked raisins, Hungarian jam, blackberries, dark chocolate, marzipan, cinnamon, forest floor, notes of tobacco and dried mushrooms.

Palate : rich, dark chocolate, bitter orange jam, plums, cranberries for meat, beef broth, black pepper, oak, sherry, notes of tobacco and leather and a drop of vinaigrette.

Finish : quite long, with notes of sherry, dark chocolate, coffee, orange peel, leather, tobacco and oak tannins.