Aultmore 18 Year Old 2006 Signatory Vintage Symington's Choice Single 1st Fill Oloroso Cask #900192 Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2025) 70cl
Aultmore 18 Year Old 2006 Signatory Vintage Symington's Choice Single 1st Fill Oloroso Cask #900192 Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2025) 70cl
1 of 594 bottles produced
A single cask Aultmore 2006 18-year-old Speyside single malt whisky bottled in 2025 without colouring or chill filtration by indie bottlers Signatory Vintage for their high end Symington’s Choice series.
This 18-year-old Aultmore 2006 came from single cask 900192, a first fill Oloroso sherry butt that yielded 594 bottles at its absolutely whopping natural cask strength of 65.5%, so you’d be well advised to keep the water jug close to hand for this one.
Signatory Vintage Scotch is one of the most discerning independent bottlers of Scotch in the world. They bottle one cask at a time, capitalizing on the unique colour and flavour characteristics of each individual cask.
By sourcing all-natural malts from the best distilleries in Scotland, selecting the best single batches and bottling only the finest casks within those batches. The resulting “single, single, single malt” this is about as exclusive it gets.
About Aultmore
Intensity is what helps to define Aultmore. Its wort is clear, the fermentations long, but its stills are relatively small with downward lyne arms.
Running the stills slow helps to maximise reflux, but the shape also allows some heavier elements to come across. In character, therefore, Aultmore shares some of the same characters as Linkwood – fragrant on the nose, substantial on the tongue
When drinking locally, you wouldn’t ever ask for an Aultmore, but for ‘a dram of the Buckie road’. Located in splendid isolation on the route which runs from that fishing port to Keith, it has – until very recently – been a rare bird as a single malt. Built by the enterprising Alexander Edward [see Craigellachie] in 1896 it was always going to be pressed into service for blends.
In 1923 it became part of the John Dewar & Sons estate and has remained so ever since. In fact, so highly prized is it as a blending malt that it is said that when Bacardi was in the process of buying Dewar’s from Diageo, it was willing to walk away from the deal if Aultmore wasn’t included.
Completely refurbished in the 1970s it is easy to dismiss as little more than a functional plant, but the character of its single malts, now finally being given an official release, shows what the blenders have been keeping to themselves for all these years.
65.5% ABV
70cl
