Whisky Focus - Glendronach Latest Batch of Single Cask Whisky

The BenRiach Distillery Company Ltd. has today, Friday 13 July, released the latest batch of single cask bottlings from its GlenDronach Distillery.

This is the sixth batch of GlenDronach single casks to be released by the award-winning Aberdeenshire distillery.

The five casks were all bottled in June and are available as of today.

The batch comprises five sublime casks with vintages ranging from 1971 to 1993. Two have been matured in Pedro Ximenez sherry puncheons, one in an Oloroso sherry butt, one in an Oloroso sherry puncheon and the fifth in a Moscatel Barrel. The Moscatel cask (1989 cask # 4885) is a particularly unusual release from GlenDronach, given that the distillery tends to focus on sherry cask maturation.

All five have been hand-selected by The BenRiach Distillery Company’s Managing Director Billy Walker, and all share GlenDronach’s typically luxurious, richly-sherried characteristics, plus a fantasia of dates, orchestras of spices and explosions of honey, Demerara sugar, sweet molasses, mocha…and even fruit cake!

The cask details are as follows:

• GlenDronach 1971 Cask No. 12477
  41 years old, matured Pedro Ximenez Sherry Puncheon then bottled at 47.9% ABV. Approx 529 bottles.
   
• GlenDronach 1978 Cask No. 1068
  33 years old, matured in a Oloroso Sherry Puncheon then bottled at 52.9% ABV. Approx 318 bottles.
   
• GlenDronach 1989 Cask No. 4885
  23 years old, matured in a Moscatel Barrel then bottled at 53.9%  ABV. Approx 286 bottles.
   
• GlenDronach 1990 Cask No. 2966
  22 years old, matured in a Pedro Ximenez Sherry Puncheon then bottled at 55.1% ABV. Approx 539 bottles.
   
• GlenDronach 1993 Cask No. 536
  19 years old, matured in a Oloroso Sherry Butt then bottled at 59.4% ABV. Approx 596 bottles.

Last year, after tasting and evaluating over 4500 whiskies worldwide for his "Whisky Bible 2012", Jim Murray singled out GlenDronach as the distillery "with the most consistently impressive output throughout 2011" and placed it "in the Grand Crus of Scottish Malt Distilleries". He added: "If there was a Whisky Bible Scotch Malt Whisky Distillery of the Year, GlenDronach would be it."
 

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