Sold outDec 2023In short · Craigellachie (Speyside), 16 years.
“The Panel felt this one displayed an immediate and enveloping aroma of old leather and cracked wax, along with old trinket boxes, pipe tobacco, crushed brazil nuts, and…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 44.181 is a single cask of Craigellachie, in the Speyside region, 16 years old, bottled at 63.2%, released in the Dec 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).