Glenmorangie Allta, ~8 YO, 51.2 %
For 10 years now Glenmorangie Distillery have released the series Private Edition, where they push boundaries and show their more creative side. This year’s 10th anniversary bottling, Glenmorangie Allta, truly is quite unique in that it has been produced using a local strain of wild yeast.
The yeast strain was discovered by Dr Bill Lumsden, Director of Distilling, Whisky Creation & Whisky Stocks at Glenmorangie. Dr Bill has a background in micro biology and research in fermentation processes. When he was studying Glenmorangie’s own, local variant of barley, Cadboll, in his laboratory he made an exciting discovery. He found the...
