Glendronach – 9 Year Old ‘Darth Vader’ Danish Release (70cl, 48%)

Glendronach – 9 Year Old ‘Darth Vader’ Danish Release is a whisky from Glendronach (Highlands). Aged 9 years, bottled at 48% ABV, 70cl. In 1826 the exuberant and extroverted James Allardice, along with a consortium of local farmers, founded the distillery and began producing his “Guid GlenDronach” single malt. Unfortunately Allardice’s marketing strategy of offering free drams to Edinburgh’s “ladies of night”, coupled with a fire at the distillery in 1837, led to him declaring bankruptcy. Thankfully however, the story doesn’t end there... The distillery was rebuilt by Walter Scott in 1852, and although it has changed hands several times over the years (and was even mothballed between 1996 and 2000), it continues today; a firm favourite of Sherry Heads everywhere. This forms part of a four part release for the Danish market, affectionately known to some as the Star Wars quadrilogy, for reasons not entirely understood by most. If you are a fan you can recognise the colours of the characters lightsabres. (Except the black bottling which is of course Darth Vader). This is the “Darth Vader” edition.