Glenfiddich The Original

Glenfiddich The Original is a new limited edition based on Hamish Robertson’s 1963 Glenfiddich Straight Malt release, considered to be the world’s first single malt. Of course whisky had already been bottled as a single malt before, but it was never marketed as such. Back then straight malt was used to set it apart from blended whisky. Later this became pure malt and now everyone is limited to single malt .

When the Glenfiddich Straight Malt was released in 1963 , it was reportedly made from a base of 8yo whisky, vatted together with some 12yo and 13yo casks. Although...