About Craigellachie 23 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Craigellachie 23-Year-Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky is the oldest distillery bottling yet to be released by Craigellachie. The whisky has a bold, salty seaside aroma bolstered by lemon, garden herbs and oak, which leads to a hearty palate filled with notes of pear, citrus zest, iodine and toasted marshmallows. The finish is long and dry, with additional notes of oak, cranberries, pepper and baking spices which linger.
Craigellachie 23 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky won “Best in Show” in the whisky category and “Best Single Malt Aged 20+ Years” at the 2015 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Only 200 cases of this rare whisky have been produced.
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About Craigellachie
Located in the heart of Speyside, at the confluence of the rivers Fiddich and Spey, Craigellachie Distillery takes its name from the town of Craigellachie, which literally means "rocky hill". Situated on a cliff that overlooks the river Spey, the town of Craigellachie dates back to the early 18th century, and the distillery itself was built by a group of blenders and merchants in 1891. Designed by then-famous architect Charles Doig, Craigellachie Distillery reflects the rustic, adventurous attitude of the mountains on which it was built, and has been described since its earliest days as "old-fashioned".
Craigellachie Single Malt Scotch Whisky is crafted from malted barley and pure spring water sourced from a spring on nearby Little Convall Hill. The malt is prepared in a wood-fired kiln before being triple-distilled through Craigellachie’s two spirit stills — finally, the distillery uses rare worm tub condensers to impart unusually strong flavors unto the whisky.
"‘Craigellachie has always been the problem child for us in that’s it’s sulphury and meaty," says Stephen Marshall, a global marketing manager for the brand. "It’s difficult for other companies to take. We’ve been sitting on stocks of it without realizing how good it was; it’s really good stuff."
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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