Glendullan 11 Year Old 2012 Signatory Vintage 100 Proof Edition #32 1st Fill Oloroso Sherry Butt Speyside Single Malt Whisky (2024) 70cl
For the American market, distillery Glendullan releases its single malt whisky as The Singleton of Glendullan. Otherwise, we depend on bottlings like this 100 Proof Edition #32 from Signatory Vintage. (11 years old, Oloroso sherry matured, 57.1%)
A small batch Glendullan 2012 11-year-old Speyside single malt whisky bottled in 2024 without colouring or chill filtration by Signatory Vintage for their amazing 100-Proof Editions range.
This 11-year-old Glendullan 2012 came from a small batch of first fill oloroso sherry butts bottled at a robust 57.1% and, as with the rest of its stablemates in the 100-Proof range, it looks like superb value. Glendullan is a modern distillery with a fantastically clean, grassy distillate, perfect for sherry maturation and bottling at this sort of age.
Tasting notes
Colour: amber.
Nose: aromas of baked apples, stewed pears, apricot, honey, toffee, roasted almonds, candied orange peel, sweet spices and hints of oak and chocolate.
Taste: full and powerful with notes of fig jam, currants and raisins, caramel, cinnamon, nutmeg, nuts, barley malt, dried fruit, syrup and milk chocolate.
Finish: Long notes of orchard fruit, cocoa, espresso, cinnamon, spicy oak, hazelnut and dark chocolate.
About Glendullan
Glendullan's long fermentation produces a green, grassy spirit that's bottled as a single malt under the Singleton brand.
At the end of the 19th century, there were already six distilleries in the town of Dufftown. For the blender company William Williams & Sons from Aberdeen, this was not enough. So in 1897 they built another distillery called Glendullan. The distillery is located on the river Fiddich just outside Dufftown. The name comes from the small river “Dullan Water” that flows nearby. Glendullan did very well from the start and was purveyor to the court of King Edward VII from 1902. And for years has been the most important supplier of the malt for the famous blended whisky Old Parr. After extensive renovations in 1962, a new distillery was built next to the old one in 1972. This building looks more like an office or school than a distillery with a flat roof and very large windows. The two distilleries worked together as a tandem at the time, the spirit was combined and used for blending. In 1985 the old distillery was dismantled and the new one now houses eight washbacks made of wood from Russia. The three wash stills and three spirit stills are heated by steam. Sherry, bourbon and refill casks are used for maturing the malt. For whisky production and for cooling the condensers, water is taken from the river Fiddich. The Glendullan distillery is one of Diageo's largest distilleries and cannot be visited.
About Signatory Vintage
Perthshire-based independent bottler and owner of Edradour distillery. Signatory is an independent bottler with a vigorous release policy, and usually some 50 different single malt expressions are available at any one time. Whiskies are bottled across a number of ranges, including the Un-chill Filtered Collection, the Cask Strength Collection and the Single Grain Collection.
Signatory bottling, bonding and office facilities are located in a building adjacent to Edradour distillery, near Pitlochry in Perthshire, which the company also owns. Signatory Vintage Scotch Whisky was established in 1988 by Andrew Symington, who had previously managed the prestigious Prestonfield House Hotel in Edinburgh. The first cask bottled by Symington was a 1968 Sherry-cask-matured Glenlivet.
Signatory was initially based in the Newhaven area of Edinburgh, where a bottling plant was developed, but in 2002 the firm acquired Edradour distillery from Pernod Ricard, and subsequently moved all of its operations north to the picturesque Perthshire location.
A new bottling plant and a warehousing complex were constructed, strictly in keeping with the vernacular architectural style which prevails at the much-visited and diminutive former farm distillery.
57.1% ABV
70cl
