Glen Garioch 10 Year Old Equinox & Solstice Summer 2022 (Decadent Drinks) | 700ML

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Whiskey: Glen Garioch 10 Year Old Equinox & Solstice Summer 2022 (Decadent Drinks) | 700ML

The Summer 2022 edition of the Equinox & Solstice range from Decadent Drinks. Here we have Glen Garioch single malt distilled in 2011 and matured in two first-fill bourbon barrels for 10 years.

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Size: 700ML

Proof: 97 (48.5%ABV)

Origin: Scotland

Distillery: Glen Garioch

The Summer 2022 edition of the Equinox & Solstice range from Decadent Drinks. Here we have Glen Garioch single malt distilled in 2011 and matured in two first-fill bourbon barrels for 10 years. It was bottled in 2022 at 48.5% ABV, and this Highlander is certainly one to sip while casting your mind back to balmy summer nights.

Glen Garioch 10 Year Old Equinox & Solstice Summer 2022 (Decadent Drinks) | 700ML Tasting Notes

Nose: Fresh cut hay and green apple, with some heather honey notes.

Palate: Sweet oaky influence, with floral notes, creamy porridge, and crumbly vanilla fudge.

Finish: Some green pepper, with sweet hay.

Distillery Information

The Glen Garioch distillery may well be Scotland’s first licensed distillery. Varying dates are given as to the founding of the distillery, but all are predated by an article in the Aberdeen Journal on the 1st December 1785, which announced the first distillation of spirit at the site. Glen Garioch (pronounced Glen Geery) lies at the village of Old Meldrum in Aberdeenshire. The distillery buildings sit huddled on a little outcrop flecked with heather gorse and grasses and surrounded by barley pastures – it is said that some of the best barley in Scotland is to be found there. Having changed hands many times over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Glen Garioch distillery was shut down in 1968. Stanley P Morrison acquired the distillery two years later. In 1973, following extensive renovations, production resumed. The whisky produced was much more reminiscent of traditional Highland single malts, this was due in part to the floor maltings at the distillery and the malt makers schooling on Islay, where he learnt the joys of peated whiskies. At a time when the Islay malt whiskies were very fashionable, Glen Gariochs new, robust character did much for the fortunes of the distillery. The floor maltings were decommissioned in 1979, though recently there has been much talk of using them once more. Today, the distillery is under the Japanese Suntory ownership, after they acquired Morrison Bowmore in 1994. Glen Garioch currently runs at three quarters of capacity, producing around 700,000 litres per annum and selling roughly one third of this yearly, much being exported for the Asian market. There are several house bottlings, as well as a few exotic finishes and a handful of independent expressions.