GlenAllachie 10 Year Oloroso Sherry Wood Finish 48%

GlenAllachie 10 Year Oloroso Sherry Wood Finish 48%

GlenAllachie 10 year Oloroso Sherry wood finish is again a blast of a single malt that all GlenAllachie fans will appreciate from Billy Walker.

Scent: Here, notes of raisins and pineapple with plantains and marzipan are discernible.
Taste: Experience many aromas where pineapple and creamy caramels are in delicious harmony with raisins and orange peel with a hint of nutmeg in the aftertaste.

This Billy Walker is bottled exclusively for the Danish market. Only a total of 3,000 bottles are produced.

About the Distillery:

The GlenAllachie distillery was established in 1967, and the first "new make" ran from the boilers in February 1968. GlenAllachie, which means "The Valley of the Rocks", was built as a result of the huge whiskey boom of the 1960s, where the total production in Scotland increased quite strongly, mainly driven by demand from the US market. The first owners who built the distillery were the company Mackinlays, which was a subsidiary of Scottish & Newcastle Breweries. The architect responsible for the construction was William Delmé-Evans, who was also behind the design of several other Scottish distilleries. In 1985 Scottish & Newcastle Breweries sold the company Mackinlays to Invergordon Distillers and in 1989 GlenAllachie became part of Campbell Distillers (now Pernod Ricard). In October 2017, the distillery was bought by the legendary Billy Walker and two business partners.

The distillery's facilities:

The distillery is equipped with a 9.4-tonne mash tun (mash vat) and 8 washbacks (fermentation vats). Distillation takes place on two boiler sets, which are unusual in that they are very wide at the bottom of the boilers. Another characteristic of the boiler house at GlenAllachie is that all the "shell and tube" condensers are placed horizontally above the boilers. GlenAllachie's water supply comes from the impressive Benrinnes, located just behind the distillery itself.

GlenAllachie Distillers Company was established in October 2017 with the aim of taking over the distillery from Pernod-Ricard. The company is led by Master Distiller Billy Walker, who has more than 50 years of experience in the whiskey industry. By his side, he has as partners Trisha Savage and Graham Stevenson. The company is well padded after Billy's sale of The Benriach Distillery Company, and you are thereby free to think short-term. Things will be done properly, and it will probably be a bit of a journey that Billy Walker invites us all on.