Product description
The Cooper's Choice is a range of single malt and single grain whiskies from the portfolio of The Vintage Malt Whisky Company, founded in 1992 by Brian Crook.
The Cooper's Choice debuted a year later and pays tribute to the coopers whose role in Scotch whisky is often underestimated. The Glenturret Ruadh Maor featured here is the 2022 Cooper's Choice - distilled in March 2013 from peated malted barley, aged in a 1906 VM bourbon cask for over nine years and bottled at 58% abv without chill filtration in an edition of 360 bottles. Glenturret is one of Scotland's oldest and smallest distilleries. It has been in operation since 1775 and has a distilling capacity of just under half a million litres of spirit per year.
Nose: barley malt, peat smoke, vanilla, caramel, honey, apples, pears, lemon peel, smoked ham, white pepper and oak.
Taste : gusts of smoke, burnt bread crust, vanilla, brown sugar, grilled pork neck, stewed apples and pears, a pinch of ginger and pepper.
Finish: medium long, with notes of smoke and ash, caramel, vanilla, toffee, pepper, hay and charred oak.