Description
Glenglassaugh 1973 Rare Cask Release Batch 3, a 42-year-old single-cask Highland single malt distilled in November 1973 and matured in a bourbon barrel before bottling in November 2016.
Glenglassaugh
Glenglassaugh Rare Cask Release 42 Year Old, Bourbon Cask, Cask #5638, Batch No. 3, 2016, 40.6%
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TypeSingle Malt Whisky
MRI
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- Region
- Highland
- Age
- 42 Years
- Vintage
- 1973
- Bottled
- 2016
- ABV
- 40.6%
- Volume
- 70cl
- Distillery
- Glenglassaugh
- Origin
- Scotland
- Cask type
- Bourbon
- Bottling
- Official Bottling
- Peated
- Unpeated
- Single cask
- Yes
- Non-chill filtered
- Yes
- Cask origin
- N.A
- Cask no.
- 5638
- Batch
- Batch 3
- PPM
- N.A
- Barley
- N.A
- Fermentation
- N.A
- Master distiller (bottling)
- Billy Walker
- Master distiller (distillation)
- Billy Walker
- Limited edition
- Yes
- Bottle count
- 238
- Has box
- Yes
- Closure
- Cork
- Presentation
- Cardboard presentation box
- Series highlights
- Rare Cask Release Batch 3
- Historical context
- Distilled in 1973 at Glenglassaugh before the distillery's long period of mothballing; bottled in 2016 after its revival.
- Special release
- N.A
- Allocation
- N.A
- Nose
- Roasted orchard fruits and stem ginger.
- Palate
- Poached yellow pears, dry cedar, elegant vanilla and ginger.
- Finish
- Long, fruity and gently woody.