Single Malt
Scotland
1 Jan 1995
1 Jan 2012
8005
This is a sixteen year old bottling of Glenburgie from Douglas Laing's Old Malt Cask range. Glenburgie is one of the principle ingredients in the famous Ballantine's Blend however it is a great single malt in its own right.
The Old Malt Cask range began as a release of fifty bottlings in 1998 to commemorate Douglas Laing's fiftieth anniversary. Today they offer many, many more. All bottlings in the range are non-chill filtered and contain no naughty colouring.
The nose is like walking though the countryside with barley, hay and corn aromas wafting up out of the glass. Then there are crab apples and aromatic herbs.
Pears, rhubarb crumble and a little lemon juice.
Lemon curd, orange zest and toasted wholemeal bread.
It's always interesting to try a component of a famous blend but it's much more fun if it tastes as good as this!
