Craigellachie 15 Years Old Oloroso 70cl 58.8°
A Craigellachie exclusive at Comptoir Irlandais! It is part of the Exceptional Cask series, a series which highlights unique and extremely rare bottlings from the distillery, selected by Stephanie Macleod, Cellar Master.
This 15-year-old Craigellachie has aged in oak barrels, in ex-Oloroso barrels. The barrel imparts notes of dark chocolate, nuts and spicy fruits. No cold filtration is carried out and no colouring added, for bottling at 58.8°. This cask n°905 was bottled in November 2022.
| Volume | 0.7 L |
| ABV | 58.8 ° |
| Type | Single malt |
| Distillery | Craigellachie |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
| Age | 15 years |
| Maturation | Sherry |
| Peat | Non Peated |
| Characteristics | Cask Strength & Non-Chill Filtered |
| Reference: | 25672 |
Built in 1891, Craigellachie Distillery sits in the heart of Speyside. To cool down the alcohol vapors after distillation Craigellachie uses traditional worm tubs as only few distilleries still do.
Worm tubs are an old-fashioned condensing system, an intestine-like ring of metal coils submerged in cold water. It is through these coils that the spirit is passed and cooled slowly, resulting in a curiously meatier spirit.
The whisky-making water itself is taken from a spring on the nearby hill of Little Conval and collected in the large Blue Hill dam.
Craigellachie takes its malted barley from a particular oil-fired kiln in Glenesk, which is what lends desirable sulphur to the spirit and adds to its famed heavy character.
Thanks to this heritage, Craigellachie is an ambitious and singular whisky which can be tasted just as you prefer.
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