Old Malt Cask - 19 Year Old Glenturret.

Cask: Refill Hogshead DL No: 5056.

Bottles from Cask: 298.

Distilled: September 1989.

Bottled: March 2009.

Nose: slivers of honey attach to nutty, barley notes: coppery, light and delicate.

Taste: mouth-watering, intense barley again shows that vein of honey; the usual metallic tingle is there, but there is also some unexpected pomegranate juice, too.

Finish: long, with the usual small still metallic edge usually found on Glenturret, but also slightly pithy with a lime-vanilla fade.

Balance: one of the few bottlings of late which shows off the Glenturret character to its fullest degree. And at the higher quality found in the early 1990s. A must get malt.

91 Points - Jim Murray's 2010 Whisky Bible.

The Old Malt Cask.

This intriguing range emerged in 1998 with a caveat that the single cask bottlings would only be available in limited numbers. But the initial 50 – to commemorate the company’s 50th anniversary – was gradually passed and today The Old Malt Cask can regularly offer over a hundred superb Malts to the connoisseur or anyone else with good taste for that matter.

In their book, colouring is wicked (in its original meaning) and chill filtration techniques makes them shiver at the thought. Without apology, The OLD MALT CASK offerings are not chill filtered, leaving in each bottle all the oils, fats and enzymes that combine to give the quality of the nose, palate, mouth-feel and finish.

A preferred strength of 50% alc/vol (referred to as the Golden Strength by old die hards) is maintained as they wholeheartedly believe this strength creates a fine, round, full quality for various Malts when taken neat.