This whisky has a very interesting recipe and it’s rather well documented. It’s a blended malt , but contrary to the vast majority of blended malts, it wasn’t blended just before bottling, but back then in 2001.
In that year, low-proof (probably quite old) leftovers from Glenrothes and Tamdhu bottlings were poured together. As they couldn’t fill an entire sherry butt, it was topped up with new make (*) spirit from a Speyside distillery that cannot be named (Glenfarclas perhaps?). This mix has been maturing for over 13 years and was now bottled at cask strength in the Archives series.
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