GlenAllachie 10 y.o. - Batch 13 - Cask Strength (70cl, 59.8%)

A Speyside single malt whisky from The GlenAllachie Distillers Company Ltd, aged 10 years and bottled at 59.8% in natural cask strength, without colouring and without chill filtration. Batch 13 draws on Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso sherry casks, red wine casks and virgin oak casks. The distillery was built in 1967 to plans by William Delmé-Evans and began production in 1968; Billy Walker, Trisha Savage and Graham Stevenson took over in 2017. The nose brings mocha, crystallised ginger and cinnamon, then manuka honey, muscovado sugar, dark syrup and maraschino cherries; the palate brings cocoa, salted caramel and warm honey, followed by baking spices, blood orange and molasses tart; the finish brings glazed blackberries and fig syrup.