Linkwood – 12 Year Old 2011 Cask Strength Auld Goonsy (54.1%)

A 12 year old Speyside single malt from Linkwood, distilled on 17 January 2011 and bottled in January 2024 at a cask strength of 54.1%. It comes from cask number 71, which yielded 249 bottles, and is part of the Auld Goonsy series. The whisky had a 12 month finish in an orange wine cask. Orange wine is a white wine made like a red, with the crushed green grapes left in contact with their skins to draw out flavour, tannin and colour. Pepper, tobacco and tropical fruit mark the palate, with clementine, vanilla and butter in the finish.