Glenfiddich 15 Years Solera Reserve

For this immensely popular Glenfiddich 15 Year Old Solera (probably their second best selling expression after their Glenfiddich 12 Years ) the distillery works with whiskies aged separately in European oak sherry casks and American oak barrels (part of which is then finished for 3-6 months in virgin oak casks). These three components are then poured into a huge Solera vat , a 37.000 litres Douglas Fir tun inspired by the sherry bodegas of Spain.

The Solera vat (first used in 1998) is never emptied . Whenever they take whisky from it (never more than 50%), it is...