This bottling of a 21-year-old Glen Spey single malt was produced by independent bottler James MacArthurs as part of the Fine Malt Selection series. The whisky was probably bottled at cask strength in the 1980s.
Glen Spey is a distillery near Rothes, Moray, Scotland, which was founded in 1878 by James Stuart & Co. under the name Mill of Rothes. After several takeovers and a renovation in 1970, it now belongs to Diageo.
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 21-year-old Glen Spey single malt was produced by independent bottler James MacArthurs as part of the Fine Malt Selection series. The whisky was probably bottled at cask strength in the 1980s.
Glen Spey is a distillery near Rothes, Moray, Scotland, which was founded in 1878 by James Stuart & Co. under the name Mill of Rothes. After several takeovers and a renovation in 1970, it now belongs to Diageo.
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.
