Glen Keith Whisky

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  Glen Keith 10 years old Version Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky 100 cl 43%

  Item no.: 505956-807534-951

  A litre bottle. That alone tells you where this whisky comes from — the big 100 cl bottles were something you bought in duty free or on export markets, and they largely vanished from shelves in Europe. The label reads The Pool of the Salmon.

  Please note: There is wear to the box.

  The expert's description

  Glen Keith 10 Year Old Old Version is a Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky from Keith in Speyside, bottled at 43% in a litre bottle.

  This is an official distillery bottling from the years when Glen Keith still ran under Seagram. The subtitle The Pool of the Salmon appeared on the distillery’s older labels, and the bottling was withdrawn long before Glen Keith gained its current series of single malts. The Highland regional wording on the label was standard practice then, even for distilleries sitting in the middle of Speyside.

  Glen Keith was built in 1957 and 1958 on the site of an old meal mill directly behind Strathisla. Seagram used the distillery as its experimental plant, trialling triple distillation, different yeast strains and gas firing. Production was mothballed in 1999, and fourteen years passed before Chivas Brothers started it up again.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Malt and dried apple, with heather honey and a dry, almost floury cereal note. Behind it sits a faint waxiness that points to the age of the bottle.

  Palate

  Slender but firm. Barley, pear and pale caramel, with a dryness mid-palate. There is more body than 43% suggests, and an old-fashioned malty style modern Speyside rarely shows.

  Finish

  Medium. Dried fruit, malt and a dry oak note closing quietly.

  Specifications

  Name: Glen Keith 10 Year Old Old Version Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky 100 cl 43%
  Distillery: Glen Keith
  Region/Country: Speyside, Scotland
  Type: Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  Age: 10 years
  ABV: 43%
  Size: 100 CL
  Edition: Old Version - The Pool of the Salmon
  EAN no.: 087000653177

  Flavour profile

  Malty · Dry · Honeyed · Waxy

  Investment potential

  Medium. Glen Keith stood still for fourteen years, and the official bottlings from before 1999 cannot be recreated. A litre bottle carrying the old label wording is therefore one collectors keep an eye on — particularly since the distillery's modern releases only returned to the market in 2017.

  Did you know?

  Glen Keith was the first Scottish distillery to fire its pot stills with gas rather than coal. Seagram used the site as its testing ground, and if something new was to be tried, it was usually tried in Keith first.

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  • 1pcs.
    160,75EUR
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  Glen Keith 1983 The Pool of The Salmon Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky 100 cl 43%

  Item no.: 505956-098460-15

  Vintage 1983 and no age statement. That is how it was written when the year told you enough on its own. The whisky was distilled in the middle of the Seagram years at Glen Keith, where the distillery was used to try things out before they were rolled out elsewhere.

  The expert's description

  Glen Keith 1983 The Pool of the Salmon is a Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky from Keith in Speyside, matured in oak casks and bottled at 43% in a litre bottle.

  The bottle carries a vintage rather than a number of years. The spirit dates from 1983, a period when Glen Keith produced for Seagram blends and was only rarely bottled as a single malt for the open market. The casks were oak, and together with the 43% that gives a calm, old-fashioned style.

  Glen Keith held an unusual place in Scotch whisky. Seagram built the distillery as an experimental plant and ran triple distillation there for a period, something otherwise associated almost entirely with the Lowlands and Ireland. When production stopped in 1999, one of the more experimental addresses in Speyside disappeared for fourteen years.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Dried apricot and malt, with beeswax and a dusty library note. There is a muted floral quality that older Speyside often develops in the bottle.

  Palate

  Soft and oily. Honey, hazelnut and baked apple, with a lightly soapy-floral turn typical of spirit from this period. The dryness arrives late.

  Finish

  Medium and calm. Malt, dried fruit and a dry oak close with no sharp edges.

  Specifications

  Name: Glen Keith 1983 The Pool of the Salmon Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky 100 cl 43%
  Distillery: Glen Keith
  Region/Country: Speyside, Scotland
  Type: Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  ABV: 43%
  Size: 100 CL
  Cask type: Oak casks
  Distilled: 1983
  Edition: The Pool of the Salmon
  EAN no.: 087000653177

  Flavour profile

  Malty · Honeyed · Floral · Soft · Waxy

  Investment potential

  Medium. A 1983 vintage bottling cannot be made again, and Glen Keith as a single malt from the Seagram years was only ever bottled in limited quantity. The litre bottle and the old subtitle make it easier for collectors hunting that specific period to recognise.

  Did you know?

  Glen Keith was built on the site of an old meal mill and stands right beside Strathisla, one of Scotland's oldest distilleries. The two neighbours have more than a century between them in age, yet share the same small town.

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  • 1pcs.
    254,50EUR
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  Glen Keith 1995/2013 Part Des Anges 17 year old Single Speyside Malt Whisky 55,5%

  Item no.: B22227865438-209

  The series is called Closed Distilleries, and when the cask was selected in 2013 the name fitted precisely. Glen Keith had stood still since 1999, and a French bottling house got hold of a bourbon cask from 1995. It yielded 175 bottles.

  The expert's description

  Glen Keith 1995/2013 Part des Anges 17 Year Old is a Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky matured in a bourbon cask and bottled at cask strength 55.5%.

  The cask was filled in 1995 and emptied in 2013 after 17 years. The bottling gave 175 bottles, non-chill filtered and with no added colour, and the whisky formed part of the Closed Distilleries series — Part des Anges' selection of whisky from distilleries that were silent or shut. The irony is that Glen Keith was started up again in 2013, the very year the bottle appeared.

  Part des Anges is a French bottling house founded in 2005 by Thierry Richard and Laurent Buob. They have specialised in whisky from distilleries without a future, which has produced a set of bottles that now works rather like an archive of a period when Scotch whisky was shutting down instead of building.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Concentrated and bright. Pineapple, yellow melon and vanilla pod, with a sharp orange peel on top. A cask that has had plenty of time without taking over.

  Palate

  Powerful and oily without being heavy. Tropical fruit, coconut and honey, with a firm peppery middle from the 55.5%. The malt sits clearly beneath it all.

  Finish

  Very long. Vanilla, pineapple and white pepper drying slowly into a note of pale oak.

  Specifications

  Name: Glen Keith 1995/2013 Part des Anges 17 Year Old Speyside Single Malt Whisky 55.5%
  Distillery: Glen Keith
  Bottler: Part des Anges
  Region/Country: Speyside, Scotland
  Type: Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  Age: 17 years
  ABV: 55.5%
  Size: 70 CL
  Cask type: Bourbon cask
  Non-chill filtered: Yes
  Natural colour: Yes
  Distilled: 1995
  Bottled: 2013
  Number of bottles: 175
  Edition: Closed Distilleries

  Flavour profile

  Tropical · Fruity · Vanilla-sweet · Spiced · Cask Strength

  Investment potential

  High. 175 bottles from a single cask, a 17 year old from a distillery that sat silent for fourteen years, and a series that collects nothing but closed addresses. All three pull in the same direction, and Part des Anges bottlings are rarely seen in ordinary trade.

  Did you know?

  During the fourteen years Glen Keith stood silent, parts were stripped from the plant to keep other distilleries running. When the decision came to reopen, there was not much left to start from — the new distillery was in practice built inside the old walls.

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  • 1pcs.
    335,00EUR
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  Glen Keith 1996/2023 Signatory Vintage 26 years old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky 70 cl 58%

  Item no.: 059763-615-152

  The spirit ran off the stills on 11 September 1996. Three years later Glen Keith closed, and fourteen years passed before production started again. This cask sat quietly through the whole of that period and was only emptied in 2023.

  The expert's description

  Glen Keith 1996/2023 Signatory Vintage 26 Year Old is a Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky from a 2nd fill oloroso sherry butt, bottled at cask strength 58%.

  The cask was filled on 11 September 1996 and emptied on 7 July 2023 — sherry butt number 7, which gave 635 individually numbered bottles, non-chill filtered and with no added colour. The whisky belongs to Symington's Choice, where Andrew Symington selects the casks himself, and a 2nd fill oloroso butt is a deliberate call: there is sherry enough for depth and dried fruit, but not so much that a 26 year old spirit gets run over.

  Glen Keith only got its own permanent single malt onto the market in 2017. For the decades before that almost the entire output went into blends, and the only bottles a whisky drinker could realistically find came from independent bottlers. That is precisely why a 26 year old from 1996 is one of the few ways to meet the distillery as it worked before the shutdown.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Spicy and indulgent. Raisins, figs and dates first, then honey and a layer of soft vanilla. Leather sits behind it, along with a calm, dark spice note.

  Palate

  Velvety despite the 58%. Gingerbread and malt loaf, with blackstrap molasses and dried fruit filling the middle. A nutty bitterness arrives at the end and keeps the sweetness in check.

  Finish

  Very long. Dried fruit and spice drying slowly into walnut shell and a dry sherry note.

  Specifications

  Name: Glen Keith 1996/2023 Signatory Vintage 26 Year Old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky 70 cl 58%
  Distillery: Glen Keith
  Bottler: Signatory Vintage
  Region/Country: Speyside, Scotland
  Type: Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  Age: 26 years
  ABV: 58%
  Size: 70 CL
  Cask type: 2nd fill oloroso sherry butt
  Non-chill filtered: Yes
  Natural colour: Yes
  Distilled: 11 September 1996
  Bottled: 7 July 2023
  Number of bottles: 635
  Edition: Symington's Choice - Cask No. 7
  EAN no.: 5021944123667

  Flavour profile

  Sherried · Dark fruit · Spiced · Creamy · Cask Strength

  Investment potential

  High. 635 bottles from one sherry butt, 26 years in wood, cask strength and spirit from the final years before Glen Keith closed. Symington's Choice is also Signatory's most attention-seeking range, and bottlings from it are rarely seen twice.

  Did you know?

  Glen Keith did not have its own official single malt in the range until 2017. The distillery was built in 1957 and for six decades supplied malt almost entirely to other people's blends, while the independent bottlers kept the name alive for whisky drinkers.

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  • 1pcs.
    455,75EUR
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  Glen Keith 1997/2018 Signatory 20 year old Single Speyside Malt 46%

  Item no.: 22227865391-7257

  Two hogsheads, filled on the same day in May 1997, emptied on the same day in February 2018. Exactly twenty years and eight months in between. Signatory has a habit of writing the dates out in full, and here it gives a neat picture of how closely the two casks tracked each other.

  Please note: The image is a stock photo.

  The expert's description

  Glen Keith 1997/2018 Signatory 20 Year Old is a Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky from two hogsheads, bottled at 46%.

  The casks were filled on 26 May 1997 and emptied on 26 February 2018 — hogsheads number 72609 and 72610, married into one bottling, non-chill filtered and with no added colour. The 46% is chosen rather than cask strength, and it suits a spirit like Glen Keith: bright and lightly waxy, where too much alcohol easily tramples over the fruit.

  The spirit dates from 1997, which is two years before Glen Keith was mothballed. Seagram used the distillery as its experimental plant and ran trials on yeast strains and mashing here, so production varied more than at an ordinary Speyside distillery. That is exactly why the year on a Glen Keith matters more than on most others.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Bright and clean. Pear, green apple and lemon peel, with vanilla and a dry malt note behind. After a couple of minutes a trace of beeswax emerges.

  Palate

  Soft and lightly oily. Honey, ripe pear and pale caramel, with a hint of toasted almond. The dryness only arrives at the end and keeps the whisky from turning dully sweet.

  Finish

  Medium. Malt, pear and a dry, faintly peppery close.

  Specifications

  Name: Glen Keith 1997/2018 Signatory 20 Year Old Speyside Single Malt 46%
  Distillery: Glen Keith
  Bottler: Signatory Vintage
  Region/Country: Speyside, Scotland
  Type: Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  Age: 20 years
  ABV: 46%
  Size: 70 CL
  Cask type: Hogsheads no. 72609 and 72610
  Non-chill filtered: Yes
  Natural colour: Yes
  Distilled: 26 May 1997
  Bottled: 26 February 2018
  EAN no.: 5021944094752

  Flavour profile

  Fruity · Malty · Honeyed · Dry · Soft

  Investment potential

  Medium. The spirit dates from 1997, from the final years before Glen Keith closed, and those bottlings exist in a number that cannot grow. A 20 year old from the period at an ordinary bottling strength is the kind of bottle that quietly disappears from shelves without being speculated on.

  Did you know?

  Seagram used Glen Keith to trial new yeast strains and mashing methods before putting them into service at other distilleries. That makes the older spirit less predictable than most — two vintages from Glen Keith can sit further apart than you are used to.

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  • 1pcs.
    107,00EUR