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

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Speyside:

Speyburn

The distillery

Speyburn Distillery
Rothes
Morayshire
IV33 7AG
+44 1340 831 213

Owner: Inver House Distillers Ltd

Creation date 1897

Speyburn has been founded by John Hopkins & Co during the diamond jubilee year of Queen Victoria, in 1897.
Settled in a wonderful valley, close to Rothes, Speyburn has been purchased in 1916 by D.C.L. (Distillers Company Ltd) which would become later UDV.
Like most of the other distilleries, Speyburn closed during the two world wars.
The distillery has been innovative from a technologic point of view. In the beginning of the 20th century, Speyburn was the first to recycle the pot ale (distillation residues). Later it was the first to use malting drums, which stopped working in 1968.
Speyburn became property of Inver House in 1991..
Speyburn is amongst others used in the Glen Talloch blend.

The whisky

List of the bottles

Description of the distillery

	Speyburn
	whisky
O.B.	10 years	14 1/3

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Speyburn 10 years
Age	10 years
Alcohol	40°
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

The nose is elegant and light. Boiled apricot and roasted almonds hints.
The taste recalls liquorice and is rather sweet and pleasant. A hint of vanilla completes the impression..

(la Maison du Whisky)

The nose detects some slightly acid smells, barley mixed with acid fruits. The palate confirms this impression, and the acidity is slightly dominant, even if it remains a pleasant whole with the other discrete aromas. A relative long finish completes the picture of this good though not essential whisky.

A second tasting confirmed the first one. The acid character of this whisky is dominating. The finish was shorter than the first time.

At the third tasting, the nose was rather pleasant and discrete, with some slight touches of citrus fruit on a bitter malt background. In the palate, this whisky is rather pleasant, without complexity but without flaw. The finis is short, but the whole is not bad, and deserves a better quotation than at first tastings.

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
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