Sold outMay 2022In short · Glenturret (Highland), 8 years.
“Imagine sitting in a Scottish black house, dry-stone walls and thatched roofs rendered black with soot from a permanent peat fire in the centre of the building.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 16.69 is a single cask of Glenturret, in the Highland region, 8 years old, bottled at 63.4%, released in the May 2022 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 16.x is from Glenturret.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
At Crieff in Perthshire, Glenturret lays claim to being one of the oldest working distilleries in Scotland, with roots reaching deep into the 18th century. It has kept faith with the old, handmade ways, mashing by hand and working at a human scale that has all but vanished elsewhere. For years it was the home of the Famous Grouse blend's visitor experience; today, under the Lalique Group, it has stepped forward as a single malt in its own right, dressed in crystal and ambition. The whisky is rich, waxy and traditional, the taste of a distillery that never stopped doing things the slow way.