{"product_id":"glen-keith-18-year-old-1990-douglas-laing-old-malt-cask-single-bourbon-barrel-dl4807-speyside-single-malt-scotch-whisky-2008-70cl","title":"Glen Keith 18 Year Old 1990 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask Single Bourbon Barrel #DL4807 Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2008) 70cl","description":"\u003ch2\u003eGlen Keith 18 Year Old 1990 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask Single Bourbon Barrel #DL4807 Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2008) 70cl\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 of 259 bottles produced from a single bourbon cask\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTASTING NOTES\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNose: A yeasty, bread-like nose with cookie dough ice-cream, Spanish green melons and gingerbread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePalate: Spiced and malty with notes of pepper and toffee apples. Lime zest and golden syrup.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinish: A spiced, woody finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout Glen Keith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExperimental from the start, the distillery produces a gentle, fruity whisky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough Glen Keith's stills are slender with long, upward-angled lyne arms indicating this is a light site, it has produced a wide variety of different makes thanks to its role as the pilot plant for many of Seagram\/Chivas Brothers’ distilling trials. Today its character is light and fruity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith sales of Chivas Regal rising throughout the 1950s, Sam Bronfman felt that he needed another distillery to supply juice for his blends – not just Chivas but Passport and 100 Pipers. He picked the site of a former meal mill in Keith, directly behind his existing Strathisla plant. As well as providing fillings for blends, Glen Keith became the Seagram’s experimental plant and still houses the Chivas Brothers lab.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt ran triple-distilled malt from the word go and alternated it with double distilled until the 1980s, ran trials with a wheat mash, was the first distillery to use gas-fired direct heating (all its stills are now steam-driven) and in its time also produced heavy peated variants [Glenisla] one made with peat smoke being passed through water which was then concentrated and the other in the normal manner. There were also trials with different yeast types. The fact that the stills were different shapes and sizes helped in these innovative trials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was mothballed in 1999, only reopening (under new owner Pernod Ricard) in 2013 after a complete refit which saw a new mash tun and washbacks being installed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile there was a 10-year-old bottling it was never a front-line malt. There are occasional sightings of it (and Glen Isla) from independent bottlers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e50% ABV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e70cl\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glen Keith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53053368926546,"sku":"GLKTH18DL4807","price":179.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/9737\/9666\/files\/GlenKeith18YearOld1990DouglasLaingOldMaltCaskSingleBourbonBarrel_DL4807SpeysideSingleMaltScotchWhisky_2008_70cl.jpg?v=1774825416","url":"https:\/\/whiskysituation.co.uk\/products\/glen-keith-18-year-old-1990-douglas-laing-old-malt-cask-single-bourbon-barrel-dl4807-speyside-single-malt-scotch-whisky-2008-70cl","provider":"Whisky Situation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}