Glenburgie 1997 – G&M Connoisseurs Choice

Description

Time for another of Gordon & MacPhail’s splendid Connoisseurs Choice Cask Strength bottlings, and this one looks like a peach – a longer-aged Glenburgie 1997 bottled in 2020 as a 22-year-old from a single first-fill sherry butt, cask 8530, that somehow retained an impressive natural cask strength of 59.1%

You don’t see much in the way of official Glenburgie due to the distillery’s importance for owner Pernod Ricard’s Ballantine’s blend. This 22-year-old Glenburgie is even more interesting as it’s from the old distillery, which was demolished by then-owners Allied in 2003 with only the stills retained for the new building.