Sold outAug 2023In short · Craigellachie (Speyside), 20 years.
“The nose had honey and nut cornflakes, sticky buns, moist gingerbread and peanut brittle, orange boxes and cherry cola in a leather shoe.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 44.172 is a single cask of Craigellachie, in the Speyside region, 20 years old, bottled at 56.7%, released in the Aug 2023 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).