This bottling of a 24-year-old Imperial Single Malt was produced by independent bottler Signatory Vintage. The whisky was distilled in 1976, matured in a butt and bottled in 2001 with 496 individually numbered bottles.
Imperial was a whisky distillery in Carron, Moray, Scotland. It was founded in 1897 by Thomas MacKenzie, opened in the summer of 1898 and closed again the following year. The distillery met its fate several more times until it closed in 1998 and was partially demolished in 2013.
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 24-year-old Imperial Single Malt was produced by independent bottler Signatory Vintage. The whisky was distilled in 1976, matured in a butt and bottled in 2001 with 496 individually numbered bottles.
Imperial was a whisky distillery in Carron, Moray, Scotland. It was founded in 1897 by Thomas MacKenzie, opened in the summer of 1898 and closed again the following year. The distillery met its fate several more times until it closed in 1998 and was partially demolished in 2013.
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.
