Glenfiddich, the world’s most awarded single malt has simply launched Time Reimagined, a outstanding assortment of aged and unique whiskies. The gathering represents the last word expression of time and the top of Glenfiddich’s signature model. Every is formed by the regular passing of time and is introduced in a singular casing of bespoke paintings.
The Time Reimagined Assortment consists of three extraordinary single malt whiskies that every seize a second in time. These whiskies have matured over a long time growing a richness and depth of flavour that’s not often encountered.
The rarest inside this extremely sought-after assortment is the 50 12 months Previous; a shocking portrayal of Simultaneous Time, exploring the parallel and sophisticated situations and results which have influenced this refined liquid.
The 40 12 months Previous represents Cumulative Time, drawing consideration to the layers of gathered flavour inside its liquid, made potential by way of the remnant vatting course of first pioneered by Glenfiddich.
Finishing the gathering is the 30 12 months Previous, embodying Suspended Time, the second when the Malt Grasp suspends the event of the whisky, showcasing the purest expression of the distiller’s character.
“I’m actually excited to have these stunning and uncommon whiskies in Australia. I feel that point can typically be missed as an ingredient in whisky making. Having these distinctive whiskies that embody that vital ingredient is one thing I sit up for sharing with bars across the nation.” – Ross Blainey, Glenfiddich Model Ambassador
For the reason that Sixties, simply three Malt Masters have been on the helm, overseeing the affected person growth of those uncommon and treasured casks. A number of a long time later, these single malts have reached the zenith of their maturity and at the moment are prepared for launch.
The placing packaging created for all three whiskies visually deconstructs and brings to life these articulations of time, telling their tales by maverick design strategies. The proper counterpoint to those whiskies which have been maturing quietly and evolving in Speyside, Scotland, by the a long time.
50 12 months Previous
The Glenfiddich 50 12 months Previous liquid takes whiskies from three totally different American Oak refill casks, all matured in the identical warehouse earlier than being married collectively and completed in an American oak refill cask for 2 years. There are solely 220 decanters of this treasured liquid on this launch, making it a particularly uncommon and sought-after collector’s merchandise. Many elements have an effect on whisky maturing within the cask, together with weather conditions: Air strain, temperature and humidity. The character of maturation adjustments with these situations. Scorching summers pace up the maturation course of and chilly winters gradual it down – dramatically affecting the end result of the liquid. These weather conditions are distinctive to that point and day, they’ll by no means be replicated. The event of the oak character, together with these weather conditions, offers the whisky its distinctive style. The outer casing is an inventive illustration of the climatic information that created this extraordinary whisky.
Manuel Jiménez García, a computational architect, decrypted the meteorological information into an algorithm, and generated a bodily design language to construct the construction’s bespoke kind bringing life to each second of day-after-day, of each month of these fifty years.
40 12 months Previous
The Glenfiddich 40 12 months Previous is a daring, maverick illustration of remnant vatting, a pioneering course of the place the remnants of the earlier batch are carried over every time, and married with the casks chosen for every subsequent launch. Glenfiddich is the one distillery that makes use of the remnant vatting course of, and this accumulation of flavours over time provides complexity to the style. Simply because the 40 12 months Previous consists of layers of flavours that rework, the outer packaging design brings this to life with a daring and distinctive tackle a geological metamorphosis.
The decanter is housed in a shocking sculptural container and stopper created from jesmonite, a cloth with particular person traits that render each piece utterly distinctive. That includes dramatic grooves carved into this progressive stone-like materials that expose the intertwining veins which circulate by it, every completely random and totally different from some other, the result’s a spectacular vessel which actually embodies the evolution of 1 factor turning into one other.
30 12 months Previous
The Glenfiddich 30 12 months Previous depicts the second when Brian Kinsman, Glenfiddich’s Malt Grasp, suspends the whisky’s maturation to bottle it, capturing the whisky on the exact second in time, an ideal expression, preserved for all eternity. The outer packaging design evokes this second by transferring ribbons, each frozen in time to kind elegant cut-out home windows, revealing the regal decanter inside. With the second of maturation captured in all its splendour, the dynamic strains and sophisticated construction create an phantasm that the bottle is suspended effortlessly, in mid-air, suspended in time.
Brian Kinsman, Glenfiddich Malt Grasp, says: “In whisky manufacturing, we regularly speak concerning the position of Malt Masters and it’s our duty to search 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 completely distinctive due to the time it has spent maturing. Each nature and time play large roles in making whisky style prefer it does and Glenfiddich’s Time Reimagined pays homage to this course of and the beautiful liquid it helps to create.”
Ross Blainey, Glenfiddich Model Ambassador says: “I’m actually excited to have these stunning and uncommon whiskies in Australia. I feel that point can typically be missed as an ingredient in whisky making. Having these distinctive whiskies that embody that vital ingredient is one thing I sit up for sharing with bars across the nation.”
In case you are inquisitive about stocking these in your bars please contact your native William Grant & Sons consultant.
