Aultmore 21 Year Old 1991 Douglas Laing Old Particular Single Refill Hogshead DL10060 Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2013) 3cl Sample
Aultmore 21 Year Old 1991 Douglas Laing Old Particular Single Refill Hogshead DL10060 Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2013) 3cl Sample
1 of 224 bottles only
A much under appreciated distillery Aultmore, this 21 year old should be an excellent and rare chance to try this delicious malt at a perfect mid-age. Typically these Aultmores are very chewy, buttery and full of light garden fruits and cereals.
Having been in specialist and craft Scotch Whisky production for generations, Douglas Laing originally exported blends, but now carries the family name down the line by focusing on bottling exceptional single malts and grains as part of their Old Particular, Provenance and XOP ranges. They also enjoy huge success with their "Remarkable Regional Malts" range; a series of creatively named vatted malts, designed to epitomise the characteristics of Scotland's whisky regions.
The Old Particular series from Douglas Laing includes hand-selected single malt and grain whiskies sourced over the length and breadth of Scotland. These malts are unchillfiltered and bottled straight from the cask without any colour added to the whisky.
Aultmore
Distilled: November 1991
Bottled: September 2013
Age: 21 Years Old
Cask Type: Refill Hogshead
Cask Number: 10060
About Aultmore
Intensity is what helps to define Aultmore. Its wort is clear, the fermentations long, but its stills are relatively small with downward lyne arms.
Running the stills slow helps to maximise reflux, but the shape also allows some heavier elements to come across. In character, therefore, Aultmore shares some of the same characters as Linkwood – fragrant on the nose, substantial on the tongue
When drinking locally, you wouldn’t ever ask for an Aultmore, but for ‘a dram of the Buckie road’. Located in splendid isolation on the route which runs from that fishing port to Keith, it has – until very recently – been a rare bird as a single malt. Built by the enterprising Alexander Edward [see Craigellachie] in 1896 it was always going to be pressed into service for blends.
In 1923 it became part of the John Dewar & Sons estate and has remained so ever since. In fact, so highly prized is it as a blending malt that it is said that when Bacardi was in the process of buying Dewar’s from Diageo, it was willing to walk away from the deal if Aultmore wasn’t included.
Completely refurbished in the 1970s it is easy to dismiss as little more than a functional plant, but the character of its single malts, now finally being given an official release, shows what the blenders have been keeping to themselves for all these years.
51.5% ABV
70cl
