Glenallachie 13 Year Old Rioja Wine Cask FinishSpeyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery Bottling 70cl 48% Glenallachie are embracing wine cask finishes these days, with some notable successes, including the cask strength 31 year old single cask Rioja finish that served as the forerunner to this particular bottling. This particular small batch Glenallachie release is a more modest 13 year old Glenallachie finished in Rioja red wine barriques and bottled at 48%, but still retains the lip

so it's difficult to know how much more of it we'll see

not to mention the fact that it was bottled in 1991 so should be developing all kinds of new nuances now after nearly twenty years of bottle maturation

A stunning Glenlivet bottled at just over 50 years of age

Strathmill is one of Diageo's more obscure distilleries

with spices and green fruit

Series UK Exclusive Country Scotland Region Highland Distilled Year 1993 Bottling Year 2014 Age 21 Cask Number 39 Cask Type

bottled as a 12-year-old in 2021 at its natural cask strength of 54

bottled July 1998 by Gordon & MacPhail

This is the latter

a natural Talisker unadulterated by wine casks or recharred wood

J&B Ultima is a remarkable whisky with a superb story

Single Malts of Scotland's Reserve Casks are bottled as small batches rather than single casks - this is a marriage of four casks of 2007 Glen Elgin bottled as a 12-year-old for Reserve Casks at the great drinking strength of 48%