{"product_id":"glen-scotia-25-year-old-1999-smws-single-oloroso-butt-1st-fill-px-finished-hogshead-93-219-a-silver-darling-london-exclusive-campbeltown-single-malt-scotch-whisky-2024-70cl","title":"Glen Scotia 25 Year Old 1999 SMWS Single Oloroso Butt 1st Fill PX Finished Hogshead 93.219 A Silver Darling London Exclusive Campbeltown Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2024) 70cl","description":"\u003ch2\u003eGlen Scotia 25 Year Old 1999 SMWS Single Oloroso Butt 1st Fill PX Finished Hogshead 93.219 A Silver Darling London Exclusive Campbeltown Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2024) 70cl\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWHISKY OF THE YEAR 2025 FOR WHISKY SITUATION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 of 219 bottles produced from a single Oloroso Cask then finished in a 1st Fill PX Hogshead producing a beautifully balanced old dignified Glen Scotia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eScotch Malt Whisky Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas founded in Edinburgh in 1983 by Phillip 'Pip' Hills who, while travelling around Scotland in the 1970s, fell in love with whiskies drawn straight from the cask. After he expanded his syndicate the Society was purchased by Glenmorangie PLC in 2004. In 2015, the Society was sold back to private investors. In June 2021, the private owners floated the holding company The Artisanal Spirits Company plc on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt has a unique code system where the first number refers to the distillery and the second refers to the cask from which the bottle comes. SMWS also offers the largest range of distilleries of any independent bottler. These curiously named drams really do have something for every whisky lover!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe SMWS are one of the Britain's most revered independent bottlers with a worldwide network of partner bars with one mission of getting as much whisky at natural cask strength without water to different nations including USA, Canada, Switzerland, UK, Austria, Germany and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTASTING NOTES\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productView-descriptionWrap\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCelebrate our silver anniversary with a sublime whisky distilled in 1999, the year we opened our London Members’ Room at 19 Greville Street. This deep, rich treasure is the result of 19 years’ maturation in an oloroso sherry butt followed by five years in a first fill Pedro Ximénez hogshead. Expect aromas of candied walnuts, maraschino cherries, cigar boxes and oloroso-soaked raisins. The taste brings cherry fruitiness, with tannins and flavours of darker dried fruits, spice and leather. Water uncovers sherry-braised pork cheeks, while on the palate there are notes of tender ‘secreto Iberico’: the best cut from acorn-fed black pigs. Relax and savour this tribute to 25 years of the Society’s home-from-home in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout Glen Scotia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the smallest distilleries in Scotland, Glen Scotia is also one of just three currently operating in Campbeltown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt could be its years spent as a supplier of fillings for blends, but there are elements of flexibility built into Glen Scotia. Three types of malt are processed [unpeated, medium-peated and heavily-peated] in its open-topped, cast iron mash tun giving wort which is fermented in (new) stainless steel washbacks, but the fermentation time will vary between short (giving nutty) and long (fruity). There is a single pair of stills. The greatest level of investment today is going into wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe distillery, originally named Scotia, was built in 1832 by Stewart, Galbraith \u0026amp; Co who ran it until 1895. In 1919, it was one of the founding members of West Highland Malt Distilleries which brought together six Campbeltown distilleries in an attempt to share costs and stave off potential closure. Five of the six failed, but in 1924 when the axe was falling across Campbeltown, Scotia was purchased by Duncan MacCallum who had founded Glen Nevis. He was forced to close it in 1928, but it reopened in 1930. That year however, MacCallum committed suicide after owing his life savings in a scam (his ghost is said to haunt the distillery) and it was bought by Bloch Bros [see Glengyle, Scapa] which added ‘Glen’ to the name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBloch retained ownership until 1954, when its distillery estate was sold to Canadian giant Hiram Walker, but clearly Campbeltown malt was not part of its plans and 12 months later it was in the hands of blender A. Gillies \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt in turn became the Scotch arm of Amalgamated Distilled Products Ltd which supplied bulk and bottled malt in a myriad of names globally. ADP in time owned Barton Brands [see Loch Lomond]. Despite reconstruction work at the end of the 1970s, Glen Scotia closed between 1984 and 1989 and when it reopened it was under the ownership of Gibson International (which had bought ADP’s distilling interests).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1994, Gibson’s whisky interests were bought by Glen Catrine Bonded Warehouse Ltd which promptly mothballed Glen Scotia once more. It worked intermittently until 1999, when it returned to fully staffed production. Although a 12-year-old was available, it was more widely available through occasional bottlings by independent bottlers. In 2012 however a new range, with striking wrap-around packaging featuring Highland cows, was launched. With Glen Catrine’s subsequent purchase in 2014 by private equity firm Exponent, there are hopes that there will be further investment in plant and brands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e58.6% ABV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e70cl\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glen Scotia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56755238601029,"sku":null,"price":449.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/9495\/8661\/files\/GlenScotia25YearOld1999SMWSSingleOlrosoButt1stFillPXFinishedHogshead93.219ASilverDarlingLondonExclusiveCampbeltownSingleMaltScotchWhisky_2024_70cl.jpg?v=1767107829","url":"https:\/\/b1yyjg-bk.myshopify.com\/products\/glen-scotia-25-year-old-1999-smws-single-oloroso-butt-1st-fill-px-finished-hogshead-93-219-a-silver-darling-london-exclusive-campbeltown-single-malt-scotch-whisky-2024-70cl","provider":"Whisky Situation Old","version":"1.0","type":"link"}