Glenlossie 12 Year Old 2012 Signatory Vintage 100 Proof Edition #35 1st Fill Oloroso Sherry Butts & Bourbon Hogsheads Speyside Single Malt Whisky (2025) 70cl

Glenlossie 12 Year Old 2012 Signatory Vintage 100 Proof Edition #35 1st Fill Oloroso Sherry Butts & Bourbon Hogsheads Speyside Single Malt Whisky (2025) 70cl

A small batch Glenlossie 2012 12-year-old Speyside single malt whisky bottled in 2025 without colouring or chill filtration by Signatory Vintage as #35 in their splendid 100-Proof Editions series.

This 12-year-old Glenlossie 2012 was bottled from a small batch of bourbon hogsheads and first fill Oloroso sherry butts and weighs in at the 100-Proof Editions’ standard 57.1%, equivalent to the old Imperial 100-Proof in the UK. Glenlossie is a particularly obscure member of Diageo’s portfolio of Speyside workhorses, spending its days making whisky mostly for the Haig blends, so it’s great to see a full-throttle high strength sherried indie version.

About Glenlossie

Glenlossie was founded near Elgin in 1876 by John Duff, a former manager at Glendronach, in partnership with a consortium including Alexander Grigor Allan (who would later have a share in Talisker) and HMS Mackay. The restless, entrepreneurial Duff departed in 1888 to seek his fortune in South Africa and, later, the USA.

In 1962, Glenlossie's license was transferred to the DCL subsidiary Haig (the blend which accounted for almost the entirety of Glenlossie's malt). At the same time the number of stills was increased from four to six. Less than a decade later, in 1971,a sister distillery, Mannochmore, was constructed on Glenlossie's site and a dark grains plant was also added to convert pot ale and draff from the group's distilleries into animal feed. There is also a bonded warehouse on Glenlossie's land containing over 200,000 maturing casks from various Diageo distilleries.

Given that Glenlossie was named as one of only twelve 'top class' malts by blenders in 1974, it is perhaps surprising that the distillery is so little-known. The reason, however, is easy to determine - the blender's high regard means that demand for Glenlossie remains extremely high, and as a result less than 1% of the distillery's output is kept back for single malt. The only official bottling of Glenlossie currently available is the 10 yo Flora & Fauna release available since the 1990s. This range is being gradually phased out, however, and it remains to be seen what plans Diageo have for this distinguished, yet obscure, workhorse.

Independent bottlings of Glenlossie are pretty rare, although Gordon & Macphail have bottled a handful of expressions recently.

57.1% ABV

70cl