This bottling of a 30-year-old Pittyvaich single malt, an original distillery bottling, was produced as part of the Diageo Special Release 2020; the whisky was bottled at cask strength in 2020, with 7,020 individually numbered bottles.
Pittyvaich was a distillery in Dufftown, Banffshire, Moray, Scotland, which was founded in 1974 by Arthur Bell & Sons. It was intended to produce malt whisky for blends and was a sister company to the Dufftown distillery. In 1993, operations ceased and in 2002 the buildings were also demolished.
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 30-year-old Pittyvaich single malt, an original distillery bottling, was produced as part of the Diageo Special Release 2020; the whisky was bottled at cask strength in 2020, with 7,020 individually numbered bottles.
Pittyvaich was a distillery in Dufftown, Banffshire, Moray, Scotland, which was founded in 1974 by Arthur Bell & Sons. It was intended to produce malt whisky for blends and was a sister company to the Dufftown distillery. In 1993, operations ceased and in 2002 the buildings were also demolished.
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.
