Glen Garioch 1984
70cl / 40%
Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling
Distilled and bottled by Morrison's Glen Garioch Distillery
One of Scotland's oldest
Glen Garioch (pronounced glen-geery) was founded in 1797 by Thomas Simpson. This makes it one of Scotland's oldest whisky distilleries that is still in operation. Glenturret is the oldest having been opened in 1775. The original name was Glengarioch (the Garioch is a fertile strip of local farmland that is well known for producing top quality barley) before changing to Glen Garioch in the 1930s. It is located in Oldmeldrum, a small town in the Highlands, which is close to Aberdeen. The distillery is Scotland's most easterly and has an annual production capacity of approximately one million litres.
New expressions
Glen Garioch is currently owned by Morrison Bowmore, which is a subsidiary of the Japanese company Suntory. They took control in 1994 and one year later, they decided to mothball the distillery (mothballing is the process where a distillery is closed but all the equipment remains intact and ready to go again, when required). Until this point, Glen Garioch had produced a lightly peated style of whisky but when it was reopened in 1997, Suntory decided to stop this practice and go for a non peaty style. The range of whisky is small and has just been completely revamped. This Founder's Reserve and a 12 years old form the main part of the range and these are joined by two vintage expressions, 1978 and 1990 (both of which are in the previous lightly peated style). These were released in Europe in Autumn 2009 and will be introduced to the north American and Asian markets shortly.
DISTILLERY LOG Glen Garioch destilleriet kan spore sin grundlæggelse tilbage til 1797 og er dermed et af Skotlands ældste (lovformelige) destillerier. Destilleriets navn udtales ’Glen Geery’ på den ældgamle doriske dialekt i det Østlige Højland.
Glen Garioch ligger i grevskabet Aberdeenshire i den lille maleriske landsby Old Meldrum, hvor Skotlands allerbedste byg dyrkes. Fra 1977 til 1993 blev kultveilte udledningen fra gæringen og overskudsvarmen fra destilleringen anvendt til, at fremavle tomater i nærtliggende væksthuse.
