Distillery: Inchgower

Whisky Type: Single Malt

Region: Speyside

Strength: 55.3%

Age: 27 Year Old

Maturation: Refil American oak hogsheads

Availability: 8,544 bottles released globally

Bottle Size: 700ml

As well as producing whisky for various blending houses, Inchgower are pretty astute at making single malts bottled under their own name. Take this 27-Year-Old bottle, made available in 2018 as part of Diageo’s Special Release series. It’s a phenomenal expression, matured in American oak casks and bottled at cask strength. The palate has plenty of character, with a wealth of notes including oak, apples and nutmeg. A truly unique offering.

Flavour Profile: Nose

Dry and flavoursome overall, the tasting is reminiscent of a dusty barn, filled with barrels of fresh, ripe fruit, sawdust and hay. Notes of walnuts, burnt toffee and vanilla enter too with a surprising tone of sweet melon at the finish.

Flavour Profile: Palate

A surprisingly sweet start of fruit compote soon gives way to a cooler, pricklier experience. Dry and crisp developing into a pithier, charred bitterness with an undercurrent of dark chocolate and at points grapeskin acidity.

Flavour Profile: Finish

Dry and crisp developing into a pithier, charred bitterness with an undercurrent of dark chocolate and at points grapeskin acidity.

. Hearty and comforting and rich in promise.