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GlenDronach
releases latest batch of single cask
bottlings
The BenRiach Distillery Company Ltd. has
today December 1st released the latest
batch of single cask bottlings from its
GlenDronach Distillery.
This is the fifth batch of GlenDronach
single casks to be released by the
award-winning Aberdeenshire distillery.
The five casks were bottled over the
last few weeks and are available as of
today.
The batch comprises five outstanding
casks from 1972 to 1993. Three have been
matured in Oloroso sherry butts, one in
an Oloroso sherry puncheon and the fifth
in a Pedro Ximinez sherry puncheon.
All five casks have been hand-selected
by The BenRiach Distillery Company’s
Managing Director Billy Walker, and they
all share GlenDronach’s typically
luxurious, richly-sherried
characteristics, plus huge layers of
fruit ranging from stewed pears to
prunes, cherry, plums, apples…and even
rhubarb crumble!
The cask details are as follows:
- GlenDronach 1972 cask no. 716 / 39 years
old / Oloroso Sherry Butt / 421 bottles
- GlenDronach 1978 cask no. 1067 / 32
years old / Oloroso Sherry Puncheon /
417 bottles
- GlenDronach 1989 cask no. 3314 / 21
years old / Pedro Ximinez Sherry
Puncheon / 489 bottles
- GlenDronach 1991 cask no. 2406 / 19
years old / Oloroso Sherry Butt / 530
bottles
- GlenDronach 1993 cask no. 1 / 18 years
old / Oloroso Sherry Butt / 507 bottles
All five whiskies were reviewed by
whisky writer Jim Murray in the
recently-published 2012 version of ‘Jim
Murray’s Whisky Bible’, and three of
them scored particularly well, with a
stunning 95 points or more, as follows:
- GlenDronach 1978 cask no. 1067 – 95.5 /
100
- GlenDronach 1989 cask no. 3314 – 95 /
100
- GlenDronach 1991 cask no. 2406 – 95 /
100
Additionally, in his annual ‘Review of
the Year’, Jim Murray singles out
GlenDronach as the distillery with the
most consistently impressive output
throughout 2011 – to quote Jim: “... if
there was a Whisky Bible Scotch Malt
Whisky Distillery of the year,
GlenDronach would be it.”
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