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

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Speyside:

Glenugie

Description of the whisky

The distillery

Glenugie distillery
Peterhead

Owner: Long John (Whitbread) (when demolished)

creation date 1830

The distillery was founded in 1830 and the production started in 1837.
In 1873, the distillery has been turned into a brewery, and it has been closed between 1925 and 1937.
The distillery has been reopened in 1937 by Seagar Evans & Co, before being bought by Long John International in 1970. Long John was absorbed by Whitbread in 1975. A few years later, Whitbread ceased its distillers activities, and the distillery has been dismantled in 1983..

The whisky

List of the bottles

Description of the distillery

	Glenugie
			Sample
Douglas Laing	Old Malt Cask, 20 years	18
Signatory	Cask Strength Collection, 1977 - 30 years
	Cask Strength Collection, 1977 - 27 years		18

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Glenugie Old Malt Cask 20 years
Age	20 years
Alcohol percentage	50%
Bottler	Douglas Laing
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A very fresh nose, with some discrete hints of hey and a touch of citrus, giving is a slight acid character. This malt is rather complex, mixing malted or woody notes to fruity touches in the palate. The finis is relatively short, and leaves a woody impression in the palate.

At the second tasting, the nose still had the same freshness, mix of hay and malt with some orange touches. The palate was first rather dry and quite bitter with nice malty hints and a touch of green apple; The finish is nice, rather shor, woody on a background of dry peat. .

Glenugie Cask Strength Collection 1977 Cask #5507
Age	30 years
Alcohol percentage	46,3%
Bottler	Signatory
Price/litre

Glenugie Cask Strength Collection 1977 Cask #5506
Age	27 years
Alcohol percentage	46,7%
Bottler	Signatory

The nose is very fresh with hints of hay, plum jam followed by nice malty notes. Quite a complex nose, announcing a very great pleasure.
The mouth is rather fresh too, at least at the beginning. Very soon a kind of metallic taste appears before developing on malty or even chocolate notes.
The finish is very original. It first tends to disappear but comes back to remain for long minutes. It contrasts with the nose as the freshness is replaced by warm malty notes.

Speyside

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.

Click on the map for a list of the distilleries of the area, on the title for further information
about the Speyside area, and if you want to make an "alphabetical journey" through the area, please
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Last update: Saturday, 19-Dec-2009 16:23:12 CET
Sun 14 03 2010, 06:56 - 44 visiteurs au cours de la dernière heure et 7 visiteurs sur le site en ce moment.
Copyright:Jean-Marie Putz (2003-2007)

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