Sold outMay 2022In short · Craigellachie (Speyside), 14 years.
“Nosing neat, memories came flooding back of ginger nut biscuits, black bun and yet another Scottish fruit cake, the Selkirk Bannock, alongside rum baba and blackstrap…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 44.153 is a single cask of Craigellachie, in the Speyside region, 14 years old, bottled at 59.6%, released in the May 2022 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 44.x is from Craigellachie.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
High above the Spey since 1891, Craigellachie keeps the old ways on purpose. Its worm-tub condensers, coiled in cold water outside, breed a heavier, sulphury, struck-match muscle that traditionalists prize like a secret. Part of the Dewar's family (Bacardi).