Whisky Focus - GlenDronach’s Cask In A Van Heads For Belgium

For the fourth year running, award-winning GlenDronach has selected a rare single cask from its Aberdeenshire distillery and will tour it around Belgium next week…in the back of a small van!

The quirky tasting tour - called "Cask in a Van" – has proved so successful that it has become an eagerly-anticipated event by Belgian fans of the single malt.

The GlenDronach Roadshow starts in Zolder on June 11 and finishes in Beveren-Waas on June 16.

Conducting it will be GlenDronach’s Brand Ambassador Stewart Buchanan who said: “Belgium is one of our fastest-growing markets and we’re delighted to take this wonderful cask on our week-long tasting tour.

"With our specially-liveried van, we’re offering Belgians the chance to savour and purchase a truly excellent GlenDronach single cask whisky - this time it’s a 2002 release, cask 2024, at 55.5% vol. which has been matured in a Pedro Ximenez sherry puncheon.

"In addition, we’ll be offering tastings of our 12, 15, 18 and 21 year-old core range along with our wonderful 15 year-old Tawny Port Wood Finish expression.”

Stewart added: "The 2002 is classic GlenDronach and it's really superb. In appearance, it’s polished antique mahogany. On the nose, there’s soft toffee and vanilla with hints of caramelised pear and ginger. And on the palate, deep cherry and soft vanilla leading to honeyed apricots and a long, creamy toffee almond finish. It's outstandingly good!"

He added: "As in previous years, people will be given the opportunity to fill their own bottle of GlenDronach straight from the cask and, as it's a limited edition, it's bound to be a highly collectable item."

So look out for the cask at an outlet near you.

The tour dates and locations are:

• 11th June: Drankenshop, Zolder
   
• 12th June: Windels, Mechelen
   
• 13th June: Verachtert, Saint Georges Sur Meuse
   
• 14th June: Fisser, Westerloo-Geel
   
• 15th June: Vercauteren, Londerzeel
   
• 16th June: Cave St Jacques, Tournai
   
• 16th June: Soete Huys, Beveren-Waas

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