The distillery: back in Scottish private ownership since 2017
Founded in 1967, The GlenAllachie Distillery has long been foreign owned. In 2017, The GlenAllachie Distillers Company bought the distillery in Speyside – together with the filled casks in the warehouse. Its new owners: longtime Scotch whiskey luminary Billy Walker and his partners Trisha Savage and Graham Stevenson. The new team was introduced to their special features by long-standing employees of the distillery. Below: The distillery has four stills and two separate spirit safes – and can therefore produce two different distillates in parallel, for example smoky and non-smoky New Make.
The GlenAllachie Distillery has so far produced almost exclusively blended whiskeys. Single malt, on the other hand, was extremely rarely available, for example through independent bottlers. This changed in 2017 with the takeover by Billy Walker’s team. Age information for its single malts is important to The GlenAllachie: The core range consists of a 10, 12, 18 and 25 year old whisky. In addition, regular single cask and special bottlings are planned – and from 2018 even a smoky whiskey.
Glenallachie 2012 Cuvée Wine Cask Finish 2023 “4cl Sample” – 54,9%
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4cl Sample of Glenallachie 2012 Cuvée Cask Finish
Cuvée – that’s French and comes from the world of winemaking. Derived from the word “cuve” for cask or tank, it describes the blending of different wines, which are bottled under one label. Winemakers thus combine the characteristics and aromas of specific wine-growing regions or grape varieties into a delicious balance. This process requires great finesse in both wine and whisky production. A job for Billy Walker.
Billy Walker has already demonstrated his blending skills, acquired over 50 years of experience, several times in the form of whisky cuvées for Kirsch customers. Now, the living legend has selected and combined barrels and barrique casks to create The GlenAllachie Cuvée Cask Finish 2012/2023.
The single malt initially matured in bourbon barrels. For the finishing process, Billy Walker used various wine casks, namely Pedro Ximenez puncheons, Moscatel barriques, and Ruby Port pipes.
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