Glen Elgin Whisky

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  Glen Elgin 13 years old Adelphi Selection Single Malt Whisky 54,6%

  Item no.: 22227865449-18416

  Adelphi picks casks by tasting their way through and saying no to most of them. It is an old fashioned way to work, and it is the reason their labels are so plain, because there is no room for anything except what is actually in the cask.

  The expert description

  Glen Elgin 13 Years Old Adelphi Selection is a Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky matured in a single bourbon cask and bottled at cask strength 54.6%.

  The cask, number C802276, gave 302 bottles. Adelphi Selection takes its name from a Glasgow distillery that closed in 1907, and the name was revived in 1993 for an independent bottling house. Every release is a single cask at cask strength, without chill filtration and without colouring.

  Glen Elgin is one of the distilleries Adelphi returns to. The house fruitiness is clear and stands up to high strength, and a bourbon cask lets it show without being wrapped in dark fruit.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Pineapple and ripe melon first, then vanilla custard and a touch of green banana from the American wood.

  Palate

  Concentrated and sweet. Tropical fruit and honey in front, then a creamy middle and a growing note of white pepper.

  Finish

  Long and dry with oak, malt and a final cool note of mint.

  Specifications

  Name: Glen Elgin 13 Years Old Adelphi Selection
  Distillery: Glen Elgin
  Bottler: Adelphi Selection
  Region/Country: Speyside Scotland
  Type: Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  Age: 13 years
  ABV: 54.6%
  Size: 70 CL
  Cask type: Bourbon cask no. C802276
  Non-chill filtered: Yes
  Natural colour: Yes
  Number of bottles: 302
  Edition: Single Cask

  Flavour profile

  Fruity · Tropical · Creamy · Spiced · Cask Strength

  Investment potential

  Medium. Adelphi bottles single casks in small runs and has a settled international collector following, and at 302 bottles this is among the smaller releases. Glen Elgin also appears rarely as a single malt, which keeps the field narrow.

  Did you know?

  Glen Elgin has for decades been the backbone of White Horse, one of the great Scottish blends. Most of the production disappears in that direction, which is why the distillery is far better known among blenders than among malt drinkers.

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  • 1pcs.
    120,50EUR
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  Glen Elgin 1995/2016 Adelphi Selection 20 years old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 70 cl 53,1%

  Item no.: 22227865480-67093-0079

  Twenty years is a long time to leave a cask to get on with it. Adelphi emptied this one in 2016, and it had been filled in 1995, a decade before most people started caring what Glen Elgin actually tasted like on its own.

  The expert description

  Glen Elgin 1995/2016 Adelphi Selection 20 Years Old is a Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky matured in a single cask and bottled at cask strength 53.1%.

  The cask, number 3216, was filled in 1995 and bottled in 2016. It gave 210 bottles, which is few even by Adelphi standards. Like the rest of the house releases it is bottled without chill filtration and without added colour.

  Twenty years does something to the Glen Elgin fruitiness. The fresh, almost tropical character that marks the younger bottlings pulls towards dried fruit and wax, and the weight the spirit takes from the worm tubs is given room to come through. That the strength still sits at 53.1% after two decades says something about how dry that cask lay.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Dried apricot and peach, honey on toast, and a waxy note like old furniture timber.

  Palate

  Deep and oily. Yellow fruit and caramel do the carrying, while the malt steps forward in the middle and the oak lays a dry spiced edge beneath.

  Finish

  Very long with mineral, white pepper and a final sweetness of honey and oak.

  Specifications

  Name: Glen Elgin 1995/2016 Adelphi Selection 20 Years Old
  Distillery: Glen Elgin
  Bottler: Adelphi Selection
  Region/Country: Speyside Scotland
  Type: Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  Age: 20 years
  ABV: 53.1%
  Size: 70 CL
  Cask type: Single cask no. 3216
  Non-chill filtered: Yes
  Natural colour: Yes
  Distilled: 1995
  Bottled: 2016
  Number of bottles: 210
  Edition: Single Cask
  EAN no.: 5060383652314

  Flavour profile

  Fruity · Waxy · Malty · Mineral · Mature

  Investment potential

  Medium. Twenty years in wood, a single cask and only 210 bottles from a distillery that supplies almost entirely to blends. Age stated Glen Elgin bottlings over twenty years have become noticeably harder to find as the older stocks have been drawn down.

  Did you know?

  Glen Elgin was rebuilt in 1964 and went from two pot stills to six. The rebuild tripled capacity, but the distillery kept its worm tubs, a decision that is today the reason the whisky carries more body than the numbers suggest.

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  • 1pcs.
    241,25EUR
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  Glen Elgin Murray McDavid Craft Cask Peated Finish Single Speyside Malt Whisky 44,5%

  Item no.: 222275555-55527

  Glen Elgin does not make peated whisky. But a cask that has held Islay malt remembers what it contained, and that is the detour Murray McDavid has taken to get smoke into a Speyside malt.

  The expert description

  Glen Elgin Murray McDavid Craft Cask Peated Finish is a Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky matured in a bourbon cask and finished in a bourbon cask from Islay, bottled at 44.5%.

  The release belongs to Cask Craft, the Murray McDavid range where the wood is the entire starting point. The series is put together by the house Head of Whisky Creations, Dean Jode, and this edition carries the subtitle Smoke & Citrus.

  The method is simple and effective. The whisky sits first in an ordinary bourbon cask and is then moved into a bourbon cask that previously held peated Islay malt. The cask gives up the peat smoke it has absorbed, and the result is a Speyside fruitiness with a smoky edge it would never have had on its own. The whisky is bottled in natural colour as batch number PEAT-01.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Citrus peel and ripe pear first, then a dry smoke note that creeps in, and vanilla beneath it all.

  Palate

  Fresh and fruity up front with orange and yellow fruit, while the smoke builds slowly and lays an ash and pepper note underneath.

  Finish

  Medium with citrus, dry smoke and a final malty sweetness.

  Specifications

  Name: Glen Elgin Murray McDavid Craft Cask Peated Finish
  Distillery: Glen Elgin
  Bottler: Murray McDavid
  Region/Country: Speyside Scotland
  Type: Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  ABV: 44.5%
  Size: 70 CL
  Cask type: Bourbon cask finished in a bourbon cask from Islay
  Natural colour: Yes
  Edition: Cask Craft Smoke and Citrus batch PEAT-01

  Flavour profile

  Lightly smoky · Citrus · Fruity · Vanilla · Spiced

  Did you know?

  Glen Elgin was in its time one of the few Diageo malts to get an official bottling in the Flora & Fauna range. For most malt drinkers that was where they first met the distillery, and for many the only time, before the independent bottlers took over.

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  • 1pcs.
    46,75EUR
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  Speyside Distillery 2009/2022 Tapestry 13 years old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky 70 cl 50%

  Item no.: 22227865480-67093-0106

  It is called Tapestry because three cask types are woven together rather than following one another. That is a different idea from the classic finish, where one cask gets the last word.

  The expert description

  Glen Elgin 2009/2022 Tapestry 13 Years Old is a Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky matured in oloroso sherry casks, Pedro Ximenez sherry casks and bourbon casks, bottled at 50%.

  The whisky was distilled in 2009 and bottled in 2022 after thirteen years. Tapestry is a range from the Uncharted Whisky Company, founded by the Scot Jack Breslin and the Dutch-German Dana de Vos, who both worked in the whisky trade for many years before setting up on their own.

  The three cask types each pull in their own direction. The bourbon casks give vanilla and pale fruit, oloroso adds nut and dried fruit, and Pedro Ximenez brings the dark, almost syrupy sweetness. Put together they land on a profile none of them would have given alone. The whisky is bottled at 50% without chill filtration and without colouring.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Raisin and dried apricot first, then vanilla and walnut, with a note of dark syrup in the background.

  Palate

  Full and layered. Yellow fruit and honey from the bourbon wood, dates and nut from the sherry, and a dark sweetness tying it together.

  Finish

  Long and warm with dried fruit, a touch of cinnamon and a dry oak close.

  Specifications

  Name: Glen Elgin 2009/2022 Tapestry 13 Years Old
  Distillery: Glen Elgin
  Bottler: Uncharted Whisky Company
  Region/Country: Speyside Scotland
  Type: Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  Age: 13 years
  ABV: 50%
  Size: 70 CL
  Cask type: Oloroso sherry casks Pedro Ximenez sherry casks and bourbon casks
  Non-chill filtered: Yes
  Natural colour: Yes
  Distilled: 2009
  Bottled: 2022
  Edition: Tapestry

  Flavour profile

  Fruity · Sherry matured · Sweet · Nutty · Spiced

  Did you know?

  The Glen Elgin fruitiness is no accident. It comes from clear wort, long fermentation and slow distillation, which together clean the sulphur notes out of the spirit, and only afterwards does the whisky get its weight back from the distillery worm tubs.

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  • 1pcs.
    120,00EUR
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  Watt Whisky 2013/2024 Glen Elgin 11-Year Single Malt Scotch Whisky 70 cl 55,3%

  Item no.: 059763-615-111234

  Glen Elgin has long been known as a blender's malt, a reputation from when its whisky went almost entirely into blends. Watt Whisky shows a very different, tropical side of the spirit.

  The expert's description

  Watt Whisky 2013/2024 Glen Elgin 11 år Single Malt Scotch Whisky 70 cl 55,3% is a Single Malt Scotch Whisky, matured in Hogshead and bottled at 55.3%.

  The whisky was distilled in 2013 and bottled in 2024 by Watt Whisky from a hogshead, with an outturn of 270 bottles. It offers a refreshing, exotic flavour profile bursting with tropical fruit and a light waxy character.

  Tasting Notes

  Nose

  Juicy peaches, mango and apricot.

  Palate

  Fresh lemon meringue pie with a hint of ginger.

  Finish

  Well balanced with lingering fruit sweetness.

  Specifications

  Name: Watt Whisky 2013/2024 Glen Elgin 11 år Single Malt Scotch Whisky 70 cl 55,3%
  Distillery: Glen Elgin
  Bottler: Watt Whisky
  Region/Country: Speyside, Scotland
  Type: Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  Age: 11 years
  ABV: 55.3%
  Size: 70 CL
  Cask type: Hogshead
  Non-chill filtered: Yes
  Natural colour: Yes
  Distilled: 2013
  Bottled: 2024
  Number of bottles: 270
  EAN no.: 5060825691000

  Flavour Profile

  Fruity · Fresh · Full-bodied

  Did you know?

  For decades, Glen Elgin was used chiefly as a blending component in White Horse, one of Scotland's classic blends, meaning its pure character has only become widely known to enthusiasts in more recent times.

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  • 1pcs.
    107,00EUR