Aberlour 12 Year Old 2014 Signatory Vintage Single 1st Fill Oloroso Butt #3 Cask Strength Collection Anthology France Exclusive Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2026) 70cl

Aberlour 12 Year Old 2014 Signatory Vintage Single 1st Fill Oloroso Butt #3 Cask Strength Collection Anthology France Exclusive Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2026) 70cl

1 of 650 bottles produced from a single 1st Fill Oloroso Butt. 

This Signatory Vintage bottle was not released for the UK. It is part of the Collection Anthology released for Whisky Live Paris 2026.  

TASTING NOTES

Nose: Rich, concentrated. Coated with a fine layer of salted butter caramel and aromas of black liquorice, the initial nose develops towards oxidative notes (sherry vinegar, mirabelle plum eau-de-vie) and tertiary aromas (date, fig). With aeration, the aromatic palette reveals heady floral notes (iris, wallflower), jammy fruit (greengage) and honeyed tones (linden).

Palate: Full, rich. A combination of praline and vanilla, the palate is supported by citrus and spicy flavours (cinnamon, white pepper). Increasingly milky (coconut, almond) and autumnal (currant, chestnut), it moves into saffron-infused territory, balancing the salinity of fleur de sel with deliciously candied pear and mirabelle plum.

Overall: Dense, balanced. In perfect harmony, oxidative (apricot rancio), oriental (curry), indulgent (nougat) and tangy (lemon) flavours bring great class to an extremely compact finish. Malty, creamy and honeyed (acacia), the retro-olfaction reveals resinous (pine), spicy (candied ginger) and empyreumatic notes (emery cloth, wood filler).

About Aberlour

A medium-weight single malt, Aberlour’s character balances malt, fruit and a distinctive blackcurrant note. It is a whisky which gains in weight and toffee-like sweetness as it matures and has sufficient depth to be able to cope with Sherry cask maturation.

The range is large, with many different variations on ex-Sherry and ex-Bourbon cask matured whiskies – some mixed, some 100%, others finished. Its greatest cult following is for the small batch, 100% Sherry-matured, cask-strength variant A’Bunadh which has run since 2000. Aberlour was also one of the first distilleries to offer a ‘bottle your own’ whisky to visitors.

The first distillery in the village of Aberlour was established in 1825 and ran until 1833, when the co-lessees James and John Grant left to build their own distillery, Glen Grant, in Rothes. The current distillery was the brainchild of James Fleming who built it in 1879 using water from St. Drostan’s Well, named after an early Columban monk, which is situated on the site.

Like many Victorian distilleries, it burnt down and, in 1898, had to be rebuilt. During World War II when the distillery was on short-term working, locals used to smuggle wash up the Aberlour burn and distil illicitly under the Linn Falls.

The distillery became part of Campbell Distillers in 1945, passing into the Pernod Ricard stable in 1974, the year after it had been expanded from two to four stills and wholly modernised internally. Its ownership has long given it a strong following in France. It is now part of Pernod’s whisky division, Chivas Brothers.

59.8% ABV

70cl