Award-winning whisky Glen Scotia launches limited-edition ‘Distillery of the 12 months’ expression
Glen Scotia has unveiled a brand new limited-edition 22-year-old ‘Distillery of the 12 months’ expression that pays homage to the continued success of its Campbeltown distillery.
After profitable ‘Scottish Whisky Distillery of the 12 months’ on the Scottish Whisky Awards in November 2021, the Glen Scotia workforce have labored over 2022 to create this uncommon and unique launch with solely 500 bottles out there worldwide, priced at £475 for 70cl (54.8% ABV).
It’s a excellent illustration of the signature Glen Scotia model, utilizing liquid from a few of its best reserves of first-fill bourbon casks and providing the basic tropical fruit and oily coastal notes you’d anticipate from a Campbeltown Single Malt Whisky. It was bottled in Might at cask power and with out added color.
The brand new launch has been superbly introduced within the model’s new premium packaging in a putting blue tube which incorporates an elevated bottle with a shoulder coin and heavy base.
A handful of bottles might be out there through poll from the Glen Scotia web site. Restricted to 1 entry per particular person, the poll is now open and closes on Sunday 4th September (23.59hrs). Profitable entrants might be notified on Monday fifth September. The remaining bottles might be out there in restricted numbers through whisky specialist retailers worldwide.
Glen Scotia has been producing single malt whisky since 1832 and is considered one of three surviving distilleries in Campbeltown. The distillery nonetheless maintains a lot of its authentic design together with the fermenters, the stillroom, and the dunnage warehouse relationship from the 1830s. To this present day, the distillery workforce observe within the footsteps of their founders, utilizing conventional strategies, fastidiously creating the distinctive Campbeltown maritime model the model has change into world-famous for.
The distillery has change into famend for its superior whisky-production capabilities. Its 25-year-old was awarded ‘Finest in Class’ and due to this fact the ‘Finest Whisky in The World’ on the San Francisco World Spirits Competitors 2021. It was the primary time a distillery has taken each the SFWSC and Scottish Whisky Awards’ accolades, not to mention in the identical 12 months.
Iain McAlister, Grasp Distiller at Glen Scotia, and his workforce have been central to the latest success, working with casks fastidiously cared for over time by a gifted workforce keen about retaining the Campbeltown story alive.
Iain McAlister, Grasp Distiller at Glen Scotia, stated: “We’re one of many smallest distilleries in Scotland, however with the mix of our workforce’s craftsmanship and our ambition to take Glen Scotia to the world, we’re producing a number of the greatest whisky to have come out of Campbeltown in a few years. It is a results of those who got here earlier than us and their exhausting work and data of the craft.
“To win Scottish Whisky Distillery of the 12 months was an actual feat, and we knew we wanted to mark it in a particular approach. This newest launch is a advantageous instance and a legacy of a real Campbeltown malt, and we hope collectors and buddies of the distillery from around the globe will be part of us in elevating a dram of it to the continued success of Glen Scotia.”
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