Sold outApr 2023In short · Inchgower (Speyside), 15 years.
“Orange oil, brazil nuts and apricots mixed with light machine oil and old fashioned cocktails while nougat, toasted pine nuts and walnut oil merged with quince jelly.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 18.49 is a single cask of Inchgower, in the Speyside region, 15 years old, bottled at 60.3%, released in the Apr 2023 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 18.x is from Inchgower.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
On the Moray coast at the edge of Buckie, where Speyside meets the sea, Inchgower has stood since 1871. This is a coastal Speysider, and it tastes like one, a firm, slightly salty, waxy spirit with a nutty edge that sets it apart from the softer valley malts inland. Owned by Diageo, it has spent most of its life as a backbone of blends, above all Bell's, and bottlings under its own name are comparatively rare, which is part of the quiet thrill of meeting it as a single cask. A working distillery, unshowy, shaped by the salt air off the Moray Firth.