About anCnoc 18 Year Old Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Nestled among lush green meadows, majestic hills, and clear, crisp springs in Banffshire, Scotland, lies Knockdhu Distillery. Established in 1894 by John Morrison, a pathfinding spirit who saw beyond the surrounding hills and grabbed the opportunity of making whisky in an environment rich with minerals, peat, and superstitions. Knockdhu Distillery is the home to anCnoc 18 Year Old Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky—a traditional spirit that spent its fair share of resting in a combination of oloroso sherry and bourbon barrels. With 46% ABV, this non-chill filtered beauty is aromatic and sweet, straight from the Highlands!
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About anCnoc
Situated in the picturesque village of Knock in the Highlands region of Scotland, the Knockdhu Distillery was founded in 1892 by John Morrison. At the time, the distillery was surrounded by acres of fresh barley and peat, and enjoyed easy access to pure spring water and the Great North Railway. When Morrison completed construction of the distillery in 1894, Knockdhu was regarded as the most modern and well-equipped distillery of its time.
Over a century after its original founding, little has changed at the distillery. AnCnoc Single Malt Scotch Whisky (anCnoc is one of the few whiskies not named after the distillery that produces it) is made from fresh, plump barley, much of it still harvested from the fields that surround the distillery. Once the grains have been harvested, they are malted and mashed before being fermented in one of the distillery's six original wooden washbacks.
Following fermentation, the wash is distilled twice through Knockdhu's century-old, copper-pot stills. The stills have unusually flat bases as compared to stills at other Scottish distilleries, which forces the alcohol vapors to travel up the long, narrow neck of the still and results in a lighter and more fruity whisky. In addition, the stills are equipped with worm tubs — large tanks of cold water that are used to condense the alcohol vapor back into a liquid spirit. These worm tubs — most distilleries abandoned worm tubs for condensing units long ago — are a testament to Knockdhu's commitment to producing a traditional style of malt whisky.
About Scotch
Scotch is the most popular whisky in the world and is considered the king of them all! There are five whisky regions in Scotland (six if you count the not officially recognized Islands), and each of them produces spirits with unique properties and distinct tasting notes. (The type of grain used determents the type of the scotch.)
Malt whisky is made of malted barley, and grain whisky uses other grains like corn or wheat. Most of the time, a whisky is blended from different distilleries hence the name blended scotch, but if a malt whisky is produced in a single distillery, we get something extraordinary called a single malt.
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