This bottling of an 8-year-old Glen Elgin single malt was produced by the independent bottler Murray McDavid as part of the Benchmark series. The whisky was distilled in 2014, matured in ex-bourbon hogsheads, finished in a first-fill ex-Koval bourbon cask, and bottled in 2022 in a run of 142 bottles.
Glen Elgin is a distillery near Elgin, Moray, Scotland, which was founded in 1898 by William Simpson and James Carle. The water of the distillery, which belongs to the Speyside region, comes from the springs of Millbuies Loch. After many changes of ownership, the distillery 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 an 8-year-old Glen Elgin single malt was produced by the independent bottler Murray McDavid as part of the Benchmark series. The whisky was distilled in 2014, matured in ex-bourbon hogsheads, finished in a first-fill ex-Koval bourbon cask, and bottled in 2022 in a run of 142 bottles.
Glen Elgin is a distillery near Elgin, Moray, Scotland, which was founded in 1898 by William Simpson and James Carle. The water of the distillery, which belongs to the Speyside region, comes from the springs of Millbuies Loch. After many changes of ownership, the distillery 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.
