GlenDronach 24 years 1992 - 2016 Single Cask #226

The founding of The GlenDronach distillery took place in 1826 in the town of Forgue near Huntly in the Highlands, Scotland. With almost 200 years of experience, The GlenDronach distillery is one of the oldest in the Highlands and a truly traditional distillery that still mainly uses maturation in sherry casks.

Since 2007, The GlenDronach has presented a series under the name: Single Cask whiskies. Batch 14 was launched in October 2016.

True to their tradition, The GlenDronach primarily uses carefully selected sherry casks hand-crafted at renowned sherry bodegas from southern Spain (Jerez de la Frontera and Sanlúcar de Barrameda) 

Origin and bottling

Distilled on 5 June of the year 1992 and finally bottled in September 2016 after a 24-year maturation. This Single Cask Whisky is the perfect example of craftsmanship from this renowned Highlands distillery.

After very careful selection, cask 226 was selected and finally bottled at cask strength without colouring and filtering. This resulted in 554 bottles.

Cask type

This Single Cask Whisky has spent over two decades on an Oloroso Sherry Butt. This cask has allowed this GlenDronach to gain unparalleled depth and enormous complexity.

Tasting notes according to GlenDronach

Appearance

Dark cherry wood.

Nose

Fresh herbal notes infused through roasted coffee beans, combined with black pepper and sweet, ripe Mediterranean fruits.

Palate

Stewed dark fruits, demerara sugar and roasted coffee beans combine with hints of spicy cedar wood, clove and mixed peel.

The GlenDronach 24 years 1992 - 2016 Single Cask #226 has an average score of 90.24 / 100 points on WhiskyBase.