21-year-old expression from The GlenAllachie Distillery

The GlenAllachie Distillery is celebrating the festive season by adding a very small batch release expression to its range – Batch One of The GlenAllachie 21-year-old Cask Strength single malt Scotch whisky.

With a very limited release of only 1,600 bottles available worldwide, 21-year-old Cask Strength Batch 1, which has a RRP of £199, has been issued on limited allocation and has been substantially oversubscribed by global distributors.

The first installment of The GlenAllachie 21-year-old Cask Strength single malt features five Pedro Ximénez (PX) puncheons and hogsheads from 1997 and 1998, which have been hand-picked and married together by Master Distiller/Blender of the Year, Billy Walker (Icons of Whisky Awards, 2020).

Specially selected from The GlenAllachie’s enviable stock of over 50,000 casks, the PX puncheons and hogsheads impart rich, sherried tones upon the distinctive butterscotch and chocolate flavours of the distillery’s archetypal spirit.

The resulting first batch of the 21-year-old Cask Strength has been bottled at 51.4 percent and is un-chill filtered for exuding maximum flavour. The intense mahogany colour of the whisky is drawn from its contact with the PX casks, with no artificial colouring added.

On the nose, the premium whisky reflects waves of dark chocolate, heather honey, mocha and orange zest, with notes of grapefruit and cinnamon. It reflects a taste which comes across as a rich mix of fruit cake, heather honey and treacle, fused with stewed plums, dark chocolate, orange peel, cinnamon and ginger.