Auchroisk 13 Year Old 2008 (cask 803811) – Family Series (The Single Cask) | 700ML

Introduction

Whiskey: Auchroisk 13 Year Old 2008 (cask 803811) – Family Series (The Single Cask) | 700ML

Pear juice, grapes, malt, white pepper, lime/citrus, green tea, spicy, cinnamon.

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Size: 700ML

Proof: 112.8 (56.4%ABV)

Origin: Scotland

Distillery: Auchroisk

An independent bottling of Auchroisk single malt aged in a single ex-bourbon barrel for 13 years. Bottled under The Single Cask’s Torsten Paul Whisky Co. Scotch & Tattoos label, the label itself is unsurprisingly pretty rad. 231 cask strength bottles were produced.

Distillery Information

The Auchroisk distillery was built by Justerini & Brooks in 1974, to ensure a steady supply of malt whisky for their J&B blend. The land and springs, including the water source, Dories Well, were bought for 5million. Although launched as a blending malt, master blender Jim Milne declared the quality of the bourbon-matured whisky sound enough to be sold as single-malt; however, it was still missing something. Accordingly, the spirit was given a year in sherry casks, which produced a much fuller, and fundamentally, more complex flavour. Although not sold as Auchroisk (pronounced OH-thrusk) – the company deemed the name difficult to read – the distillerys own bottlings were first sold, up until 2001, under the name Singleton and in 1986 the first bottling, a twelve year-old, was released under this name. A very large distillery with substantial storage facilities- enough to hold 265,000 casks – Auchroisk is large enough to hold storage for other distilleries as well. Originally part of the group IDV, comprising of W A Gilbey and Justerini & Brooks, in February of 1972 the group was purchased by Watney Mann and, in July, merged with Grand Metropolitan. After the merger between Guinness and Grand Metropolitan in 1997, Auchroisk is currently under the ownership of Diageo. The distillery is still young and, as such, the range is small, based mainly around the ten year-old.