Sold outOct 2024In short · Craigellachie (Speyside), 17 years.
“We Panellists came face to face with a powerful nose featuring olives with chilli and black pepper, roasted chestnuts and crispy-skinned chicken.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 44.182 is a single cask of Craigellachie, in the Speyside region, 17 years old, bottled at 58.2%, released in the Oct 2024 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).