This bottling of a Caperdonich single malt was produced by the independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail in the Connoisseurs Choice series. The whisky was distilled in 1980, matured in refill ex-sherry hogsheads and bottled in 2006.
Caperdonich is a former distillery in Rothes, Moray, Scotland, which was founded in 1897 by James Grant as Glen Grant No. 2 opposite Glen Grant. The distillery was closed from 1902 and was taken over by Glenlivet Distilleries in 1965 and given the name Caperdonich. It closed again in 2002 and was also demolished in 2010.
The Speyside lies in the north-east of the Highlands and is considered the centre of Scotland's whisky production. Around the towns of Elgin, Rothes, Keith and Dufftown there are more distilleries than anywhere else in Scotland, including big names such as Glenfarclas, Glenlivet, Macallan and many more.
Elegance and complexity are often cited as characteristic features of Speyside malts, but the variety of whiskies produced here is too great to speak of a single style.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
This bottling of a Caperdonich single malt was produced by the independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail in the Connoisseurs Choice series. The whisky was distilled in 1980, matured in refill ex-sherry hogsheads and bottled in 2006.
Caperdonich is a former distillery in Rothes, Moray, Scotland, which was founded in 1897 by James Grant as Glen Grant No. 2 opposite Glen Grant. The distillery was closed from 1902 and was taken over by Glenlivet Distilleries in 1965 and given the name Caperdonich. It closed again in 2002 and was also demolished in 2010.
The Speyside lies in the north-east of the Highlands and is considered the centre of Scotland's whisky production. Around the towns of Elgin, Rothes, Keith and Dufftown there are more distilleries than anywhere else in Scotland, including big names such as Glenfarclas, Glenlivet, Macallan and many more.
Elegance and complexity are often cited as characteristic features of Speyside malts, but the variety of whiskies produced here is too great to speak of a single style.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
