Posts Tagged “Lowlands”
Just outside of Glasgow, you’ll find the curious Auchentoshan distillery. It’s curious in that it distills the whisky three times, like Irish whisky, and as such, are the only scotch producer to wholly use a triple distillation method. Other distilleries use partial triple distillation (Mortlach and Springbank come to mind), and Springbank even makes a…
The 18 year old is the beginning of the “upper class” for Glengoyne. Gone is the perfumy Lowlands and the sherry and spice combine in the 18 to create a real spice banger. It’s different than all the other expressions in this massive spiciness, and makes for a great drink. This is the most “Highland”…
The Glengoyne 15 is the third rung up in the core range, unless you count the now NAS Cask Strength (which you would if it were still age stated at 12 – an expression reviewed by me here – but that’s no longer the case). The 15 has many of the same characteristics of the 10,…
The second stop on our vertical tasting of Glengoyne is the 12 year old. Matured in (relatively weak) sherry casks, it has more sherry notes and less fruity ones than the 10 year old, reviewed yesterday. Glengoyne whisky is made using totally unpeated barley that is fully air dried. Nominally in the Highlands, the fact that…
I wrote a bit about Glengoyne in the popular post about still shapes, in which I compared three basic entry level expressions based upon the size and shape of the stills, and I included the Glengoyne 10 as the slowest distillation process. Additionally, I reviewed the Glengoyne 12 Cask Strength. Following my visit to the TWE…