This bottling of a 23-year-old Dufftown single malt was produced by independent bottler Cadenhead, here in the so-called dumpy bottle, which was common until 1989 (as CS until 1991). The whisky was distilled in 1966 and bottled in 1989.
Dufftown is a distillery in the whisky town of Dufftown, Banffshire, Scotland, which was founded in 1895 by Peter Mackenzie, Richard Stackpole, John Symon and Charles MacPherson in an old mill. Today, it is one of the largest distilleries in Diageo's portfolio.
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 23-year-old Dufftown single malt was produced by independent bottler Cadenhead, here in the so-called dumpy bottle, which was common until 1989 (as CS until 1991). The whisky was distilled in 1966 and bottled in 1989.
Dufftown is a distillery in the whisky town of Dufftown, Banffshire, Scotland, which was founded in 1895 by Peter Mackenzie, Richard Stackpole, John Symon and Charles MacPherson in an old mill. Today, it is one of the largest distilleries in Diageo's portfolio.
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.
