The Glasgow Distillery has debuted two new additions to its experimental single malt Small Batch Collection, highlighting the flexibility of spirit produced on the distillery and its experience in wooden administration.
Glasgow 1770 Cognac Cask End is an beautiful frivolously peated single malt that blends unpeated and peated spirit, matured in premium French Cognac casks and Glasgow 1770 Tokaji Cask End affords a uncommon and attractive tropical twist with the distillery’s unpeated spirit matured in Hungarian Tokaji wine casks.
Each expressions have been matured for six years and are the primary age statements within the Small Batch Collection – a variety of restricted version, experimental cask-finished whiskies.
Mike Hayward, co-founder of The Glasgow Distillery, commented:
“These expressions profit from prolonged secondary maturations, showcasing the experience in cask administration amongst the crew now we have right here at The Glasgow Distillery.
“Glasgow 1770 Cognac Cask End combines three unpeated Cognac casks with two peated casks for a frivolously peated launch. Initially matured inside first fill ex-bourbon casks, this characteristically fruity launch has been completed for an prolonged three years and 4 months inside distinctive Cognac casks to supply notes of candy smoke, wealthy honey, poached pear, dried apple, and vanilla ice cream.
“Glasgow 1770 Tokaji Cask End showcases our fruit ahead unpeated single malt with a uncommon Hungarian candy wine cask affect. Initially matured inside first fill ex-bourbon casks, this launch has undergone an prolonged secondary maturation of three years and 6 months in Tokaji wine casks leading to notes of tropical mango, pineapple orange, dried apricot, cashew nuts, manuka honey, and nutmeg spice.”
Housed within the distillery’s signature industrial bottles, Glasgow 1770 Cognac Cask End has been bottled at 58% ABV with 2250 bottles accessible. Glasgow 1770 Tokaji Cask End is obtainable at 54.8% ABV with a restricted run of 1300 bottles.
All releases can be found on The Glasgow Distillery web site and in specialist retailers throughout the UK, with an RRP of £59.00.
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