Notes on The Casual Dram:07 - Sunday 2 July - Library Bar
Notes on the lineup…
Ardnamurchan 2017 AD 53.6 %
Limited Release No. 02
Cask: A marriage of peated and un-peated spirit matured in first fill ex-sherry octaves followed by four months in Pedro Ximénez casks.
The second release from the Ardnamurchan distillery. Too young to be called whisky - but rather a malt spirit.
‘As early as ‘07 we noticed that demand had overtaken supply, and there were three options: start filling new make, buy a distillery or build one. For some stupid reason we decided to take the third option!” - Alex Bruce - managing director at Adelphi/Ardnamurchan
Adelphi Breath Of Speyside 2006/2017 10YO
57.7%
Bottled by Adelphi
Cask: First fill European oak sherry butt
Bottles: 508
Vintage: 2006
Bottled: 2017
10 years old
Bottled from an undisclosed Speyside distillery which many believe to be Glenfarclas.
Adelphi Bunnahabhain 2009/2019 10YO 58.8%
Bottled by Adelphi
Vintage: 2009
Bottled: 2019
Stated Age: 10 years old
Cask type: 1st fill sherry
Cask number: 900021
Bottles: 719
Bunnahabhain has large stills that are filled low. This ensures plenty of reflux and conversation between spirit and copper. Ageing is typically in ex-sherry casks.
Adelphi Linkwood 2008/2020 11YO 55.8%
Bottled by Adelphi
Vintage: 2008
Bottled: 2020
Stated Age: 11 Years Old
Cask type: 1st Fill Sherry
Cask number: 3083360
Bottles: 311
Linkwood produces a light fragrant style of new make thanks to long ferments, clear worts, slow distillation and plenty of copper contact in stills where the spirits stills are larger than the wash stills.
Ardnamurchan AD 10.22
Madeira Hogshead Finish
58.2%
Vintage: 2016
Bottled: 2022
Cask type: Five years in first-fill Bourbon casks - followed by a Madeira Hogshead finish.
Bottles: 5781
The Ardnamurchan distillery is located in the Western Highlands and produces a traditional rugged highland style. It is owned by Adelphi, the independent bottler, which was itself started by Jammie Walker, the great-grandson of Archibald Walker who was one of the initial owners of the original Adelphi distillery based in Glasgow.
