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Key Facts About This Whisky

Bottler:

Range: Single Cask Series

Founder: Greg and Kirsty Dillon

Distillery: Auchroisk

Region: Speyside, Scotland

Age: 12 years old

Distilled: April 2009

Bottled: October 2021

Cask type: A single ex-bourbon cask

Alcohol by Volume: 48.2%

Bottled: Natural colour and without chill filtration

Outturn: 200 bottles

Bottle Size: 500ml

About GreatDrams Auchroisk

It is incredibly rare to find a bottle of whisky from this fine distillery. They have only had a handful of limited releases over the years. Pronounced ‘arr-thrusk’, the Auchroisk Distillery uses fast mashing, fermentation and boiling early in the process. This creates a heavy character within their new make spirit which, through maturation will develop into a whisky full of honey and cereal notes. An excellent find by GreatDrams.

Curiously, the first Auchroisk official bottling, in 1986, was the first ‘finished whisky'. They took a 10 Year Old ex-bourbon whisky and placed it into sherry casks for two years. Auchroisk is the most northerly distillery in Speyside and produces around 6 million litres of spirit a year, with virtually all of it going into blended Scotch whiskies the world over.

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