Glenglassaugh 1973-2014 - 40 Year Old - Single Cask 6801 - Rare Cask Release

INFORMATION

Glenglassaugh 1973 - 2014. 40 Year Old. Rare Cask Release. Cask number 6801. One of 497 bottles finished in a Manzanilla Sherry Puncheon. 70cl. 52.1%.

DISTILLERY:Glenglassaugh

DISTILLERY STATUS:Working

Bottle ABV:52.1%

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

Bottle PRODUCED:497

BOTTLER:Distillery Bottling

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK NUMBER:6801

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Speyside

DISTILLED YEAR:1973

BOTTLING DATE::2014

AGE:40

Glenglassaugh has been a sporadic distillery throughout its lifetime. Built in 1875, the distillery was in operation for only five years between 1908 and 1960, and was mothballed again by Highland Distillers in 1986.

Glenglassaugh restarted production in 2008 under new owners the Scaent group before being acquired in 2013 by Billy Walker’s Benriach Distillery Company, which was then itself bought out by Brown Forman in 2016 before Walker had had time to properly work the magic that revived Benriach and Glendronach.

With large production gaps and the new spirit from the 2008 reopening only just starting to come of age, it’s unsurprising that official bottlings of Glenglassaugh have been patchy. Both Walker and Scaent bottled some top class long-aged stock, and Walker also released a popular young peated Glenglassaugh called Torfa. Some excellent post-2008 Glenglassaughs have now started to appear from independent bottlers.