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Glenglassaugh The First Cask 2008
Cask 159.1%70 cl
About this bottle
On the 24th November 2008, 22 years after it fell silent, Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland, started the inaugural milling for the first mash of a new era for Glenglassaugh distillery. The first mash itself took place on the 28th November and the first spirit distillation on the 4th December with the first cask being filled on the 16th December 2008. The very first cask, a refill butt, was filled on the "first cask filling day in 2008" was emptied and refilled into 2 smaller casks on the 16th December 2010. These smaller casks were first-fill ex-Palo Cortado sherry hogshead. On the 16th September 2011 the whiskies were returned from these 2 casks into the original butt and were married for a period of exactly 3 months. The whisky was bottled on the 16th December 2011 by the 11 employees of Glenglassaugh Distillery Company.
This unique bottle has been bottled at cask strength without the use of chill-filtration and with no colour added.
1 of only 650 bottles, complete with Certificate of Authenticity signed by Master Distiller, Stuart Nickerson.
Lot details
Specifications
- Bottler
- Official
- Distillery
- Glenglassaugh
- Type
- Full Size
- Cask number
- 1
- Bottle size
- 70 cl
- Strength
- 59.1%
- Outturn
- 650 bottles
- Shipping weight
- 2 kg
This remote coastal Highland distillery is one that could have been so easily lost. Established in 1873 by James Muir, its history has been littered with periods of closure and various owners. The final period of closure came in 1986 before the distillery was saved by the Scaent group in 2008 and production restarted. For much of its life, Glenglassaugh has been a blend component, but step back a few decades, or try some of the well-aged releases and you can sense a whisky that deserves more prominence. Production today remains modest compared to many other similarly sized distilleries with a small percentage being a peated distillate. Much of what’s being released today is of a No Age Statement ilk, as Glenglassaugh has that huge 22 year period of closure to overcome. Now under the ownership of Brown Forman, more investment and re-evaluation are potentially on the cards, as the distillery begins to find its voice.
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