Welcome to day 13 we are just over the halfway mark hope you are all enjoying the ride thus far? Any favourites? I know we have had a few. Today we got one from Glenfiddich’s experimental series. To be exact this is the 4th in their experimental series. If you’re interested in seeing the other expressions they can be read about here. Today’s expression is easy enough to get your hands on but if you’re interested in trying the others you’re going to have to do a bit of searching. I hope you enjoy.
GLENFIDDICH HISTORY
The story of the building of Glenfiddich has the air of a Victorian fairy tale. It was in 1886 that William Grant of Dufftown decided to leave his position as manager of Mortlach and start up on his own. He had saved assiduously and, fortuitously, was starting his project just as Elizabeth Cumming was revamping Cardhu and replacing her old small stills. Along with his wife and nine children, William built his distillery near to the Fiddich river by hand. The first new make trickled out on Christmas Day, 1887. At a time when more distilleries had foundered than succeeded, and those which were being built tended to be bankrolled by brokers, bonders and blenders, his enterprise and stubborn belief was remarkable.
He must have been a talented distiller, for his whole output was soon snapped up by Aberdeen blender and broker William Williams. Within 25 years, the family firm had 63 agencies internationally, proving them with their family blend, ‘Grant’s Standfast’.
The firm is still wholly owned by the Grant family (now in its fifth generation), and has expanded to include three more malt distilleries [Balvenie, Kininvie and Ailsa Bay], a grain plant [Girvan] and other brands such as Monkey Shoulder and Hendrick’s gin.
In 1963, after a dispute over grain supply (which prompted the firm to build the Girvan plant) the decision was made to bottle and promote Glenfiddich as a single malt, the first concerted effort to create a global malt brand. In the late 1960s it was one of the first to be sold in new duty free outlets and in 1969 the distillery’s doors were opened to the public – another first.
Today, Glenfiddich remains the world’s best-selling single malt with sales in excess of a million cases a year.
Tasting Notes
Nose: banana, rice crispies, fried pineapple, white fruit, mint, distant smoke
Taste: light peat, tobacco, leather, fruity smoke
FInish: light finish, lingering smoke, green apple
Purchase Links
Can be purchased here from Legacy Liquor
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Can be purchased here from BC Liquor Stores