Showing posts with label 1975. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1975. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 November 2014

Glen Albyn 35yo (1975/2010) Gordon & MacPhail


Loch Ness mysteries in a bottle

View of the Beauly Firth at the mouth of the Caledonian Canal,
 100m from the grounds of the former Glen Albyn

Prelude

Last summer,  I stayed in Inverness for a couple of nights, it only came natural to do a bit of whisky relic hunting during my evening strolls.
Nowadays no one would likely make the connection between whisk and Inverness. Only a few of you would probably point out to me that the town is home to Bairds, an important supplier of malted barley.

Up to the 80's Inverness could proudly say it had no less than three small distilleries within the city limits. All was fine with the world until the overzealous industry created the infamous whisky lake that swept away two centuries of whisky production in Inverness.