Glen Elgin Chapter 7 - Single Cask #570885/A/C Whisky 13 Year Old · 2007 Vintage
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Ninety hours of fermentation and slow distillation gives a distinctive fruitiness to Glen Elgin. The contents of a Bourbon Hogshead was finished in three octave casks. You will experience a unique blend of Oloroso and Ruby Port wood finishes.
Thanks to this maturation process, there are luxurious aromas of sour cherries, dried plums and figures, ginger and peppers. The richness continues of the palate, with stewed pears, red fruits, dark chocolate, baking spices. Intense flavours of liquorice, burnt caramel, spicy mint on the finish.
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Tasting Notes
Colour
Rich, sun-bronzed amber with coppery highlights and a hint of mahogany at the rim.
Nose
Luxurious aromas of sour cherries and dried plums rise with a warm ginger-and-pepper sparkle. Subtle oak from the Oloroso and Ruby Port finishes lends perfumed sweetness, hinting at toasted spice and a whisper of burnt caramel.
Palate
Luxuriously full-bodied, the palate opens with stewed pears and red fruits, then dark chocolate and baking spices emerge. Liquorice and burnt caramel weave through the fruit, with a final flourish of spicy mint on the finish.
Finish
Extensive finish of liquorice and burnt caramel, brightened by spicy mint. A lingering warmth carries hints of dark chocolate and red fruit, tapering to peppery spice.