Certainly one of Scotland’s rarest personal cask collections is about to be bottled for the primary time beneath the Finn Thomson Whisky model, with a Glenlivet 50 Yr Previous as its first launch. The gathering celebrates the Thomson household’s 300-year-long relationship with Scotch whisky.
Ninth technology member of the family Finn Thomson is behind the discharge. His great-great-grandfather Peter Thomson arrange his namesake grocery and whisky enterprise in Perth in 1908, alongside blended whisky icons Dewar’s, Bell’s, and Gloag. After the sale of the enterprise within the Nineteen Eighties, Michael Thomson, Finn’s grandfather, began stowing away the younger malt and grain casks that made up the key recipe of Beneagles whisky. The casks have been left to relaxation ever since.
“For 300 years my forefathers have been concerned in whisky – distilling, mixing and buying and selling,” defined Finn Thomson, grasp bottler. “And rising up, I used to be at all times fascinated by my grandfather’s recollections of his time within the whisky commerce. These tales have impressed me to reignite the household enterprise and create new experiences and improvements within the thrilling world of single cask impartial bottlers.
“Quietly, granddad Michael spent the Nineteen Eighties and 90s choosing and accumulating the younger casks of single malts and grains that had fashioned the key recipe of the Beneagles mix, handed down over the generations. In doing so, he accrued one in all Scotland’s largest personal cask collections.
“Now, it’s my honour to carry this aged assortment of uncommon casks to the lips of a brand new technology. Every cask has its personal particular person persona. Each Finn Thomson whisky is a one-off with its personal great character.”
Finn Thomson Whisky assortment shall be divided into three ranges: Crown, Uncommon and Core. The Crown vary will function the oldest single malts from Scotland’s most sought-after distilleries, whereas the Uncommon sequence contains single cask whiskies aged for at the very least 30 years. The Core line, in the meantime, gives single cask bottlings.
The inaugural launch is Glenlivet 50 Yr Previous, one of many oldest whiskies within the Crown line.
Bottled at 49.8% ABV, the expression was matured in a first-fill Sherry hogshead, with the Sherry being bottled by Peter Thomson’s in Scotland. Within the Nineteen Seventies, earlier than the authorized requirement that every one Sherry have to be bottled in Spain, it was widespread for Sherry to be shipped in casks to Scotland for bottling.
On the nostril, the 50-year-old Glenlivet gives aromas of fried fruit and oloroso Sherry. The palate brings an preliminary sweetness of salted caramel adopted by dried fruits. Simply 127 bottles of the whisky have been made.
The complete Finn Thomson Whisky vary will initially be obtainable from specialist whisky retailers throughout the UK together with Woodwinters, Villeneuve Wines, Freds Drinks, Oban Whisky and Positive Wine, Malts and Spirits and Aberdeen Whisky Store. It’ll even be obtainable in Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands.
For extra data, head over to the model’s official web site.
Earlier this month, the Glenlivet unveiled The Pattern Room Assortment with 21 and 25 Yr Previous whiskies.
