Glenfiddich has launched a spread of three luxurious single malts, themed round time. The Time Re:Imagined assortment contains 30-year-old, 40-year-old and 50-year-old expressions, priced from £900 as much as £35,000.
The whiskies have been matured in Speyside. Each is introduced in packaging designed to interpret completely different ideas of time.
‘In whisky manufacturing, we regularly speak concerning the function of malt masters and it’s our accountability to seek out the fragile steadiness between the style of the whisky and the depth of the oak cask. However we don’t all the time acknowledge how every cask, every bottle, is totally distinctive due to the time it has spent maturing,’ mentioned Brian Kinsman, malt grasp at Glenfiddich.
‘Each nature and time play enormous roles in making whisky style prefer it does… Glenfiddich’s Time Re:Imagined pays homage to this course of and the beautiful liquid it helps to create.’
The youngest expression is Glenfiddich 30 12 months Previous Suspended Time (Alcohol 43%, £930/70cl, Harrods, Harvey Nichols, The Whisky Trade, The Whisky Store). It depicts the second when the grasp distiller decides the whisky is able to be bottled, the purpose at which maturation is suspended. The packaging displays this with a design of shifting ribbons that kind cut-out home windows, displaying the decanter suspended inside. The palate is described as: ‘Deep, woody flavours interlaced with delicate floral accents, in a fancy mixture.’
Glenfiddich 40 12 months Previous Cumulative Time (Alc 44.6%, £3,500/70cl) is impressed by the method of remnant vatting. On this method the stays of the earlier batch of whisky are carried over and married with the brand new casks chosen for a subsequent launch. The sculptural packaging design is impressed by geological metamorphosis and constituted of jesmonite, giving a stone-like look.
The style is described as: ‘Luxuriously full and silky easy… with recollections of previous releases in each nuanced notice. Evolving from deep dried fruit notes to wealthy fruitcake, dates, raisins and stewed apples, earlier than giving approach to dry oaky notes, with delicate hints of bitter chocolate and peat.’
The rarest expression is Glenfiddich 50 12 months Previous Simultaneous Time (Alc 43.8%, £35,000/70cl). It’s a mix of whiskies from three completely different American oak casks matured in the identical warehouse, blended after which completed in American oak for 2 years. This creates a fancy whisky with lingering sweetness on the palate, that ‘softens into deep, silky easy oak tannin and sun-dried vanilla’. Solely 220 bottles have been produced.
The 50-year-old and its packaging are impressed by the simultaneous elements that have an effect on maturation in cask, together with weather conditions comparable to air stress, temperature and humidity. The packaging was created by main computational designer, Manuel Jiménez García, who decrypted meteorological knowledge from the previous 50 years into an algorithm. He used this to generate a bodily design representing the particular weather conditions of that point span.
Glenfiddich Time Re:Imagined is the most recent launch from distiller William Grant & Sons, owned by the Gordon household. Earlier this summer time it unveiled the Home of Hazelwood assortment of uncommon whiskies, drawn from shares laid down for nearly a century and named after the household dwelling in Dufftown.
