This bottling of a 26-year-old Allt-A-Bhainne single malt was produced by the independent bottler Murray McDavid in the Mission Gold series. The whisky was distilled in 1995, matured in ex-bourbon casks, finished in ex-Oloroso sherry and ex-red wine casks and bottled in 560 bottles in 2022.
Allt-a-Bhainne is a distillery in Favillar, Moray, in the Speyside region, which was founded in 1975 by Chivas Brothers. It was sold to Pernod Ricard in December 2001 and closed between 2002 and 2005.
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 Allt-A-Bhainne single malt was produced by the independent bottler Murray McDavid in the Mission Gold series. The whisky was distilled in 1995, matured in ex-bourbon casks, finished in ex-Oloroso sherry and ex-red wine casks and bottled in 560 bottles in 2022.
Allt-a-Bhainne is a distillery in Favillar, Moray, in the Speyside region, which was founded in 1975 by Chivas Brothers. It was sold to Pernod Ricard in December 2001 and closed between 2002 and 2005.
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.
