Mannochmore 2007 - 17 Year 'Red Wine Barrique - Cask 173445', Single Cask Nation

• Single malt Scotch whisky selected and bottled by Single Cask Nation • Cask #173445 • Distilled at Mannochmore [MAN•och•moor] (Gaelic for “great monk”) Distillery in Elgin, Scotland (Speyside) • 100% unpeated barley • Water is sourced from the Bardon Burn, a tributary to the river Spey • Aged 17 years; matured for 14 years in ex-bourbon cask and finished for 3 years in a refill re-charred red wine barrique • Distilled fall 2007 and bottled fall 2024 • 241 bottles produced • Strawberries and pears with a pop of bubble gum and a lingering aroma of leather conspire to entice the nose. These notes are energetically repeated on the palate, enlivened by lychee and a whiff of char. Dried cherries and a bit of wet pipe tobacco provide the finish. • No added coloring • Non-chill filtered; bottled at a cask strength of 53% ABV One of sixteen distilleries built in the whisky boom between 1960 and 1980, this Speyside concern originally supplied fruity, perfumed malt—the product of clear wort and long fermentation—for a blend called Haig. Mothballed during the period of demand collapse (the “whisky loch’) in the 1980s, Mannochmore has returned, since being acquired by Diageo, to the role of blend workhorse, and the firm’s single malts—rare to begin with—have become rarer still.