This bottling of a 21-year-old Cardhu single malt as the distillery's original bottling was produced as a Diageo Special Release 2013. The whisky was distilled in 1991 and bottled in 2013 at cask strength with 6000 individually numbered bottles.
Cardhu (formerly also: Cardow) is a distillery near Cardow, Knockando, Scotland, which was founded in 1824 by John and Helen Cumming. The distillery was rebuilt in 1884, extended several times and now belongs to Diageo.
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 21-year-old Cardhu single malt as the distillery's original bottling was produced as a Diageo Special Release 2013. The whisky was distilled in 1991 and bottled in 2013 at cask strength with 6000 individually numbered bottles.
Cardhu (formerly also: Cardow) is a distillery near Cardow, Knockando, Scotland, which was founded in 1824 by John and Helen Cumming. The distillery was rebuilt in 1884, extended several times and now belongs to Diageo.
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.
