Cask: Refill Hogshead DL No: 6844. Bottles from Cask: 350. Distilled: June 1994. Bottled: December 2010. Nose: heather, lavender and polished leather…; Taste: juicy barley with a beautiful lustre to the thin treacle outlining the vanilla-rich oak; all kinds of spices buzz and fret; Finish: a succession of firm barley-bourbon notes drying towards the very death; Balance: a trademark top range Aberfeldy I actually recognised as being from this distillery even before I looked at what sample I was tasting! Adorable. And quite beautifully constructed.
Douglas Laing & Co Ltd,於1950年由Fred Douglas Laing先生所創立,近年來積極的加入開發專業的單一麥單桶少量、高品質的單一桶單一麥蘇格蘭威士忌,同時在威士忌的裝瓶過程中也選擇傳統的方式以不加色及不冷卻過濾且不加水降低酒精度的最原始、自然的呈現方式來裝瓶。
The Old Malt Cask正是此單一桶單一麥的最佳代表,所有的威士忌桶都由負責人親自挑選後於Douglas Laing & Co Ltd所屬之裝瓶廠以傳統方式採最能保持原始口感來裝瓶,我們選擇最理想的50%來裝瓶,是最能表現原酒特色且不經冷卻過濾方式的最佳狀態,我想喝過後的人都會同意的。