Inchgower Distillery and The Chess Malt Collection - Blog post by Whiskymagasinet

In this blog post, Whisky Magazine takes a closer look at the Inchgower distillery and give a brief portrait of one of the distilleries represented in the The Chess Malt Collection

Inchgower Distillery and The Chess Malt Collection

Blog post published in Whisky Magazine no 5

Inchgower Today, the distillery is beautifully situated just outside the small fishing village of Buckie. The distillery was established in 1871 by Alexander Wilson. However, it was actually equipment from another distillery that was simply moved to a new address. A little east of Buchie is a small town called Cullen. This is where the Tochineal distillery was located. It was built by John Wilson way back in 1825, and it was the equipment from here that Alexander Wilson moved to the Inchgower distillery. Thus, Tochineal was shut down. Part of the old distillery still stands and is now used by a local farmer.
Inchgower is probably one of the very few distilleries that has been owned and run by a local council. It had to step in in 1936 to save the business when the Wilson family went bankrupt. Two years later, Arthur Bell's bought the distillery for the princely sum of £3,000. With the merger of Bell's and the Guinness group, and the subsequent purchase of this company by DCL, Inchgower became part of the large multinational company that today is called Diageo.

The whisky from Inchgower has always been a significant ingredient in blends, and has very rarely been bottled.[1]pet as a single malt by the distillery owners. The freshly distilled "new make" from Inchgower has a reputation for being coastal with an intense spicy flavor.

The Chess Malt Collection
The Chess Malt Collection is a celebration of Scotland's history and its proud people. The Chess Malt Collection gives you the opportunity to collect pieces of Scotland's history in bottles. Over the coming years, you can collect all 32 chess pieces in the form of lovely whisky bottles. Equally distributed in the colors black and white, you will be able to collect 2 kings, 2 queens, 4 bishops, 4 knights, 4 knights, 4 rooks and no less than 16 pawns. 32 Single Malt Whiskies all representing different ages, cask types and expressions from different distilleries. All bottles in The Chess Malt Collection are bottled as Single Casks Cask Strength with no cold filtration or added caramel. These are the pure drops straight from the cask.

Inchgower 1998 - The Chess Malt Collection

This whisky is from the Inchgower distillery in the Speyside region. Only 206 bottles were produced from this cask. No color added. Stored in Hogshead Refill. Lots of nuances of tropical fruits, slightly smoky character and nuts.

Distillery: Inchgower
Bottler: The Chess Malt Collection
Vintage: Distilled: November 1998 Bottled: May 2022
Age: 23 years. Type: Single Malt Speyside Whisky
Cask number/type: Hogshead Refill
Number of bottles: 206 Un-chillfiltered Natural Colour
Alc. strength: 57,5%
70 cl.

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