This bottling of a 12-year-old Auchroisk 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 1978 and bottled in 1990.
Auchroisk is a distillery near Mulben, Banffshire, Scotland, built between 1972 and 1974 by International Distillers & Vintners Ltd (IDV). It was built to produce malt whisky for blends, but single malt bottlings can be found as early as 1978 and ever since. Today, the distillery 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 12-year-old Auchroisk 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 1978 and bottled in 1990.
Auchroisk is a distillery near Mulben, Banffshire, Scotland, built between 1972 and 1974 by International Distillers & Vintners Ltd (IDV). It was built to produce malt whisky for blends, but single malt bottlings can be found as early as 1978 and ever since. Today, the distillery 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.
