Whisky Focus - GlenDronach The Hielan' 8 Year Old

GlenDronach launch The Hielan’, a new 8 year old Highland single malt from its Forgue, Aberdeenshire, distillery.

GlenDronach today launched GlenDronach The Hielan' 8 Year Old an innovative expression, specially selected by Master Blender Billy Walker to complement the distillery’s burgeoning range of outstanding malts. The new GlenDronach Hielan' has been matured and married in a combination of the finest bourbon and sherry casks.

The intriguing name is a heartfelt tip of the hat to the extraordinary Forgue distillery, GlenDronach’s spiritual home in the Highlands and one of Scotland’s oldest distilleries. Founded in 1826 by the inventor, pioneer and entrepreneur James Allardice to produce "the guid GlenDronach", it has been instrumental in creating some of the world’s finest richly sherried malts.

The whisky is non-chill filtered, natural colour and bottled at 46% ABV, GlenDronach describe the 8 year old The Hielan’ as a phenomenal, fragrant whisky, redolent of spices, sultanas, raisins, butterscotch and sweet sherry. Billy Walker’s tasting notes below show this remarkable expression is set to become yet another stellar GlenDronach.

GlenDronach’s selection of malts now ranges from twelve years through fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one and twenty-four to the Recherché at 44 year old, but they thought that there was a gap in the market for an 8 year old entry level single malt to lead into their portfolio.

They say its sweet, creamy taste and classic sherry signature tell you immediately it is a very fine GlenDronach, a rich and immensely satisfying dram which delivers in the mouth exactly what it promises on the nose.

The new GlenDronach The Hielan' 8 Year Old will be available to purchase from specialist whisky shops including The Whisky Exchange
 

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