Glengoyne Teapot Dram Batch #1 Distillery Exclusive Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2011) 70cl
A bottle of the first release of Glengoyne Distillery's The Teapot Dram series. Made from whiskies drawn from five different first fill sherry casks, it boasts plenty of brown sugar, sweet fruit, and soft spices.
Inspired by the long-gone tradition of daily tea break whisky ration, the cask strength Teapot Dram Batch No.1 is a distillery exclusive release. A strictly limited release of just ten first fill Oloroso casks, the Teapot Dram Batch No.1 was bottled at cask strength of 58.8% ABV.
A rarity these days as back then people mostly drunk these quite quickly. A truly marvellous & satisfying dram to have. It becomes more and more of a history piece by the day.
About Glengoyne
A small farm-style distillery located under Dumgoyne, the most westerly extrusion of the Campsie Fells, Glengoyne has long punched well above its weight.
It runs a combination of long (and very long) fermentations, while distillation in its three stills (one wash, two spirit) is extremely slow. All of the stills have boil bulbs, which increases the amount of copper availability, while the gentle heating of the wash and spirit also helps to maximise the amount of time the alcohol vapour can play with the copper. This maximising of reflux produces a gentle, sweet, and fruity new make.
There is however sufficient weight in the spirit to be able to balance with maturation in ex-Sherry butts – a signature of Edrington’s distilleries – which has been retained by Ian MacLeod.
A distillery has stood on this site since 1833, when the Edmonstone family (the main landowner of the area) began production, passing control to the MacLelland family in the 1850s who, in turn, sold it to the Glasgow-based blender Lang Bros in 1876. It was they who changed the distillery’s original name, Burnfoot, to Glen Guin which was anglicised to Glengoyne in 1905.
It played a vital role within Lang Brothers' blends [the best known being Supreme] and those of Robertson & Baxter (now Edrington). The latter firm bought Lang Brothers. in 1965.
Single malt bottlings began in the early 1990s, when Glengoyne was sold as 'the unpeated malt', while much was also made of the fact that, geographically, the distillery is in the Highlands while its warehouses, directly across the road, are in the Lowlands.
Edrington considered it surplus to its requirements in 2003, selling it to Ian McLeod or £7.2m. Its new owner has subsequently (and successfully) focused on developing the brand as a single malt and the distillery as a multifunctional tourist destination. It now gets in excess of 50,000 visitors a year
58.8% ABV
70cl
