This single cask bottling of a 12-year-old Aultmore single malt was produced by the independent bottler Douglas Laing in the Old Malt Cask 50 series. The whisky was distilled in 1996, matured in an ex-sherry butt and was bottled in 687 bottles in 2008.
Aultmore is a distillery near Keith, Banffshire, in Scotland and was founded in 1896 by Alexander Edwards. The distillery was renovated and expanded in 1970/1971 and today belongs to Bacardi.
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 single cask bottling of a 12-year-old Aultmore single malt was produced by the independent bottler Douglas Laing in the Old Malt Cask 50 series. The whisky was distilled in 1996, matured in an ex-sherry butt and was bottled in 687 bottles in 2008.
Aultmore is a distillery near Keith, Banffshire, in Scotland and was founded in 1896 by Alexander Edwards. The distillery was renovated and expanded in 1970/1971 and today belongs to Bacardi.
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.
