{"product_id":"glenmorangie-15-year-old-cadboll-estate-batch-4-designer-bourbon-casks-limited-edition-highland-single-malt-scotch-whisky-2024-70cl","title":"Glenmorangie 15 Year Old Cadboll Estate Batch 4 Designer Bourbon Casks Limited Edition Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2024) 70cl","description":"\u003ch2\u003eGlenmorangie 15 Year Old Cadboll Estate Batch 4 Designer Bourbon Casks Limited Edition Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2024) 70cl\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA limited release from Glenmorangie and one of their best releases to date. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cadboll estate batch 4 has been created with barley grown in just eight field in their Cadboll Estate, located near the distillery. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fourth batch release of Cadboll Estate series gives whisky lovers old and new a taste of our remote and unspoilt Highland world, wherever they happen to be. Every limited edition in the series is distilled from barley grown on our own land - bottling the unique and distinct character of our distillery. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slide_copy pt160 pr24 pb72\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bodycopy\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 2024 release of the Cadboll Estate, aged for 15 years in our designer bourbon casks, magnifies the whisky’s creaminess. It is uniquely silky, rich, and full bodied with notes of honeycomb, apricot, and pears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTASTING NOTES\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNose: Beautifully aromatic, honeyed and sweet, with tastes of almond, marzipan, honeycomb, melon and pear. Vanilla crème anglaise is present, along with a touch of mint. With a small splash of water, some classic floral notes emerge, with jasmine, lavender and rose, along with a fresh burst of mandarin orange and apricot.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePalate: The texture is smooth and creamy, and is immediately followed by an explosion of complex, colourful flavours: zesty lemon and mandarin orange, menthol and eucalyptus, vanilla and honeycomb, ripe pear and melon. Sweet spices tempered by butter candy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFinish: Full and rich, but gentle and soothing at the same time, rounded off by a lingering mentholic note.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout Glenmorangie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe attention paid to its pioneering work in wood management has resulted in Glenmorangie’s distillation regime being slightly overlooked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe process at Glenmorangie starts with mashing unpeated barley with water from the distillery’s Tarlogie Springs – making this one of a small number of hard water sites in Scotland. Although there is no smoke, once a year some chocolate malt is added to the mash for use in the firm’s Signet brand – another of the distillery’s many innovations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFermentation is long, while distillation takes place in the tallest stills in Scotland, all of which retain the same long-necked design of the pair which were brought from John Taylor’s gin distillery in 1887. This extra height allows a long interaction to take place between alcohol vapour and copper and, while the new make is decidedly high-toned (the cut points here are quite high), there is still a little note of cereal, adding a dry counterpoint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vast majority of Glenmorangie’s make is aged in ex-American oak casks, many of which have been made to the distillery’s exacting specifications: slow-growth American white oak from north-facing slopes in Missouri, which is then air-dried. The firm’s Astar bottling uses 100% of these ‘bespoke’ casks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe casks are only used twice, with the second-fill casks all ageing in damp ‘dunnage’ warehouses to increase oxidative-driven flavours. As the whisky matures, it picks up more lush fruits, some honey and mint, as well as notes of vanilla, crème brûlee and, in the oldest expressions, chocolate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the mature spirit is then transferred to ex-fortified wine (Port, Sherry) and still wine (Sauternes, Burgundy, Super-Tuscan etc) casks for a period of finishing. Glenmorangie was one of the pioneers of this technique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSituated next to the Dornoch Firth in a series of handsome red sandstone buildings, the Glenmorangie distillery started life as the local brewery for the town of Tain. In 1843, William Matheson converted it to a distillery and it remained in the family until 1887, when it was sold to the Glenmorangie Distillery Co, co-owned by the Maitland brothers and Duncan Cameron.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the First World War, the business was sold to a partnership between two blending and broking firms, Macdonald \u0026amp; Muir and Durham \u0026amp; Co, soon passing entirely to the former, which used the whisky for blends such as Highland Queen. Although it was bottled in small quantities from the 1920s, a change of strategy in 1959 saw Glenmorangie revived as a single malt that soon became Scotland’s biggest seller.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was not the first time that this had happened, however. Records show that at the end of the 19th century Glenmorangie was being sold at The Savoy and other top-end London hotels, as well as being exported.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly success in the infant single malt category resulted in two more stills being added to the original pair in 1976, a number which was doubled again in 1990. In 2009, four more were added, along with a larger mash tun and extra washbacks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive years previously, French luxury goods firm Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) had bought the firm (also including Ardbeg) for £300m. More recently, extra warehousing has been built, the result of a decision to mature and vat all the production on-site.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn January 2018, it was announced that a new stillhouse would be built, housing two more of Glenmorangie’s distinctive, long-necked stills, plus a new mash tun and washbacks. 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