Snap up a delightful barrel of malt from this classic Speyside distillery. This 2nd fill Bourbon barrel contains whisky that has matured for 7 years, having been distilled in 2012. It has great potential for growth and contains approximately 151 bottles at cask strength 57.90% ABV.
| Distillery | Craigellachie |
| Region | Speyside |
| Age | 7 years |
| Distillation Date | April 18, 2012 |
| Cask Type | Second Fill Bourbon Barrel |
| Peated? | No |
| Re-gauge ABV | 57.90% |
| Re-gauge Litre of Alcohol (RLA) | 64.38 litres |
| Re-gauge Date | October 26, 2017 |
| Bottles | 151 |
| Cask Number | 800157 |
Nose – Tropical fruits, bananas at the fore.
Palate – Peaches folded into buttery pastry, key limes.
Nose with water – More peaches and fragrant meadowflowers, cut grass.
Palate with water – Ginger snap biscuits and apple turnovers.
At full strength, this whisky brings a full fruitbowl of exotic fruits on the nose, with softening banana aromas pushing past papaya and star fruit. When water is added, the aroma takes on the personality of fat peaches – but there’s also a tiny mustiness, like that found in the deepest portion of a pile of meadow trimmings.
On the palate, peaches come across strongly, united with soft and almost dairy notes of baked puff pastry. With water, peach turns to apple, still firmly set in a pocket of hot pastry, and there’s also a note of ginger biscuits, though (and this is crucial), not the kind with bits of stem ginger in them.
Speyside is a long river valley set around its eponymous river – a bowl where the rains that fall on Grampians and Cairngorms can channel and bubble through myriad burns, irrigating the valley all the way down to the Spey. This fertile valley shelters farmland and forest from bitter weather, allowing Speyside to thrive as the beating heart of the Scotch whisky industry. The fields of barley are something to behold when the harvest approaches.
At the heart of Speyside itself lies Craigellachie, at the intersection of the rivers Spey and Fiddich. Macallan is here, as is the Speyside cooperage – and so is Craigellachie distillery. Since 1890, the distillery has been notable for a fresh pineapple note in an almost tropical version of Speyside style. Younger Craigellachie still carries a little sulphur from traditional worm tub condensation, but over time this matures into a deeper flavour that lends a solid base to Craigellachie’s tropical fruit notes.
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