Scotland, Speyside: Single malt whisky through the producing distilleries: history, making, production and tasting notes

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Glenallachie

Description of the whisky

The distillery

Glenallachie distillerie
Glenallachie Distillery
Aberlour,
Banffshire AB38 9LR
+44 1340 871 315
Owner: Pernod-Ricard
Creation date 1967
Owner

The distillery has been founded in 1967 by the Mackinlay McPherson Ltd. The company was part or the Scottish Newcastle Breweries Ltd. in those days.
The distillery was designed by the architect William Delmé Evans, who also built Tullibardine and Isle of Jura. Evans died on 6 october 2003, aged 83.
The Scottish Newcastle Breweries sold the Glenallachie in 1985 and it became part of the Invergordon Distillers Group, together with Isle of Jura. It closed the same year and reopened when it became ownership of its current owner who doubled the production capacity by adjunction of two stills.
100% of the production is made for the blending industry, and specially for Clan Campbell. It is very rare to find whisky from this distillery as single malt.

The whisky

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List of the bottles

Description of the distillery

Glenallachie
whisky
Delhaize 1989 14
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Glenallachie
1989
Age
 12 years
Alcohol percentage
 40%
Bottler
 Delhaize le Lion
=25 euros
 
 
The smell of the single malt essentially used in blending's is rather fresh,fruity 'pear?), mixed up with some malt hints. The taste is not unpleasant. A short finish completes the picture. This bottle is certainly not essential. Its price puts it however in a very good position in respect with most of blends on the market.

The second tasting just confirmed the first one. This is certainly not a great bottle. It can be considered as being not too bad...

The nose first is rather strange and recalls clearly soap, a bit like the first impression left by the official version of Edradour. Beyond soap, some fruity touches. In the palate, a pleasant impression of non aggressive but rather flat whisky. The relatively short finish is characterized by a slight alcohol impression followed by a slight bitter sweetness. The general impression left at this third tasting is however better than the two first times.
16/20
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Speyside

Speyside Map

The Speyside area is situated at the North of the Cairngorm mountain and goes to the Moray firth. It is delimited by two rivers: the Findhorn at the West side and the Deveron on the East side.
The area is named after the river Spey. Most of the distilleries take their water in one of its affluents; the Fiddich, the Livet or the Avon.
About sixty distilleries from Speyside are described on this site.

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