Old Malt Cask - 18 Year Old Glen Ord Sherry Finish.

Cask: Refill Hogshead DL No: 3336.

Bottles from Cask: 808.

Distilled: January 1989.

Bottled: February 2007.

Nose: multiple layers of barley and sultana dovetail with lemon-ginger and oak. Sublime.

Taste: more mouth-watering on delivery than any 18 year old has a right to be; again it’s the barley and grape at full play, with the very lightest wisps of smoke. The oak crashes in mid stream.

Finish: more oak, this time with a natural toffee/dried date edge.

Balance: just shows how stupendous this distillery can be when left to its own devices.

90 Points - Jim Murray's 2008 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.