This bottling of a 26-year-old Linkwood single malt as an original bottling of the distillery was produced as a Diageo Special Release 2008. The whisky was distilled in 1981, matured for the last 14 years in ex-Port wine casks and was bottled at cask strength in 2008 in 1260 individually numbered bottles.
Linkwood is a distillery on the Burn of Linkwood, south of Elgin, Scotland, which was founded around 1825 by Peter Brown. It has been renovated, rebuilt and extended several times, most recently in 1971 with a new stillhouse (Linkwood B), the old stillhouse (Linkwood A) was closed between 1985 and 1990. Today, almost the entire output is used for Diageo blends.
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 26-year-old Linkwood single malt as an original bottling of the distillery was produced as a Diageo Special Release 2008. The whisky was distilled in 1981, matured for the last 14 years in ex-Port wine casks and was bottled at cask strength in 2008 in 1260 individually numbered bottles.
Linkwood is a distillery on the Burn of Linkwood, south of Elgin, Scotland, which was founded around 1825 by Peter Brown. It has been renovated, rebuilt and extended several times, most recently in 1971 with a new stillhouse (Linkwood B), the old stillhouse (Linkwood A) was closed between 1985 and 1990. Today, almost the entire output is used for Diageo blends.
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.
