Glen Garioch 2011
Single malt Scotch whisky · 70cl
Distilled at Glen Garioch in the Highlands in 2011 and matured for 15 years in a single ex-bourbon cask, a warm, patisserie-led Chronograph of baked apple, vanilla cream and gentle spice.
Tasting notes
- Baked Apple
- Cinnamon Spice
- Vanilla Cream
- Buttery Pastry
- Honeyed Malt
- Toasted Oak
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Ardmore 2009 is still in bottleWhy we chose this cask
One ex-bourbon cask, fifteen years. It came out tasting like apple pie, which makes it the most straightforwardly likeable bottle in the range and the one we would hand to somebody who says they do not like whisky.
One cask, 256 bottles.
Who it is for
For the drinker who orders the tarte tatin.
Patisserie sweetness, orchard fruit and soft spice: a first cask-strength bottle that asks only for a drop of water and an unhurried evening.
Flavour profile
Tasted by Jamie
Golden amber with bright, sunlit hues, and slow, syrupy legs that hint at real depth and texture.
Freshly baked apple pie leads, stewed orchard fruit wrapped in buttery pastry and soft cinnamon, over biscuity, almost shortbread malt, with vanilla cream, light caramel and a delicate floral lift.
Rounded and luxuriously textured: honeyed malt and golden syrup give way to baked apple and a custard-like richness, balanced by toasted oak and gentle peppery spice. The finish is long and softly spiced, oak and cinnamon fading into vanilla cream and light honey.
- Baked Apple
- Cinnamon Spice
- Vanilla Cream
- Buttery Pastry
- Honeyed Malt
- Toasted Oak
The cask
Nº 138
About Glen Garioch
HighlandFounded in 1797 by the Manson brothers at Oldmeldrum in the eastern Highlands, Glen Garioch (pronounced ‘Glen Geery’) is one of Scotland’s oldest distilleries. It once dried its own malt over peat, but since the floor maltings fell silent in 1995 the house style has become fuller and largely unpeated, wholesome malt and honeyed sweetness lifted by orchard fruit and warm oak. Drawn from a single ex-bourbon cask, this fifteen-year-old captures that patisserie-sweet Highland character in one finite filling, never cast quite the same way again.
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