EScotland, Central Highlands: Single malt whisky through the producing distilleries: history, making, production and tasting notes

Advertisers on this page have been carefully selected. (see list)

Central Highlands:

Deanston

The distillery

Deanston Distillery
Deanston, near Doune
Perthshire, FK16 6AG
+44 01786-841422

Owner: Burn Stewart Group

Creation date 1965

The buildings of the distillery were previously used by a cotton plant since 1785. The cotton plant closed in the early 1960's and the first production of the new distillery started in october 1966.
The characteristics of the building made the plant ideal for a distillery. The warehouses of the factory were build in order to ensure a constant temperature.
Further, the situation on the banks of the river Teith was ideal for whisky production. The distillery was built by the Deanston Distillery Co. company, but has been taken over by Invergordon in 1972. The distillery closed in 1982 before acquisition by Burn Stewart who resumed the production.
Burn Stewart has been bought by a company based in Trinidad, CL Financial Ltd, who owns Angostura amongst other spirit brands. Other distilleries belonging to Burn Stewart are, Tobermory et Bunnahabhain.
About 15% of the production is marketed as single malt, the remaining being used in blends, among others Scottish Leade, Black Prince and in the Wallas liquor.

The whisky

List of the bottles

Description of the distillery

	Deanston
	whisky
O.B.	12 years	15 2/3
	17 years	17

See Help 0 - 40 € 40 - 80 € 80 - 120 € 120 - 160 € 160 - 200 € 200 - 240 € 240 - 280 € > 280 €

Deanston 12 years
Age	12 years
Alcohol	40°
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

This whisky does not come from a very popular distilleries area. The malt is not very popular neither, but it is rather pleasant. It caracterizes itself by a relatively strong wood taste, but stay remarkably balanced. A reasonable price for a good but not essential whisky. No regrets for having purchased it...

The general impression during the second tasting was better than the first time. Even if this bottle cannot be considered as one of the best Scotch whiskies, this :malt is quite nice, and can compete with many others. A very pleasant taste, however without this complexity, mixing spices, malt and smoke which characterizes the best bottles.

The floral nose reveals some discrete spice hints. In the palate, malt dominates with a slight touch of liquorice and some woody aftertaste. The finish is rather pleasant, on malt with some bitterness.

Deanston 17 years
Age	17 years
Alcohol	40°
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

Nose
Fabulously bitter sweet nose, breakfast time stuff with marmalade and honey. Thrilling complexity.
Palate
Again, a peculiarly thin mouth feel. Begins oaky dry and then a surge of malt helps sweeten things a little. And a delightful spice buzz forms a permanent, lively strata.
Finish
A milky oakiness with dry coconut nuttiness.
Comment
An improvement from the 17-year-old of old, which doesn't even begin to show its big age.
(Jim Murray - Whisky Magazine)

An interesting nose, with hints of malt mixed with citrus fruis. Acid sugar.... However the sweetness dominates. In the palate, a first dominating impression is wood. Malt comes and sweetnesses it, before the acid notes come back, just before the dry and acid finish. A rather complex whisky.

The nose is pleasant and detects malted notes, mixid with some acid and sugared hints, like an orange with honey on a muesli plate. In the palate, the same sweetness, with some woody hints. A relative complexity, but all the aromas from the nosing remain in the mouth and dominate successively: acidity, sweetness and malted hints. A rather long finish, remaining in the same patterns.

Central Highlands

The County of Perth, between the Lowlands and the Higlands is famous for its hilly landscapes.
About one hundred distilleries were settled in the area during the 19th century, and just a few of them survived, and some others were build during the 20th century. The area is wider than just the Perth county, as Dalwinnie, in the South of Inverness county is also included in that area.

Click on the map for a list of the distilleries of the area, on the title for further information
about the Central Highlands area, and if you want to make an "alphabetical journey" through the area, please
click on one of the pagode roofs, according to the direction you want to follow

Whisky search engine

Last update: Sunday, 17-Feb-2008 20:58:52 CET
Tue 13 05 2008, 13:53 - 51 visiteurs au cours de la dernière heure et 5 visiteurs sur le site en ce moment.
Copyright:Jean-Marie Putz (2003-2007)

Whisky is an alcoholic drink. Let's prefer quality to quantity as the abuse of alcohol beverages can damage the health. Consuming alcoholic drinks during pregnancy, even in small quantities, can seriously affect the health of the child. Consumption of alcohol impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery, and may cause health problems.