Pulteney
Pulteney
REGION: Highland
STYLE: Single Malt Scotch Whisky
ABV: 45.8%
AGE: 18 Years
RRP: £99.95
If you’re in Japan, you may have had a sneak peek at the new 70cl Pulteney label (it was a bespoke bottling for our friends at Shinanoya) but this is the first globally available release.
Pulteney’s wash still features a distinctively massive, flat-topped boil bulb that maximizes reflux—legend claims it was cut to fit the distillery roof.
The spirit still further enhances character with a convoluted, coiling lyne arm and purifier, while traditional worm tub condensation adds significant weight to the final spirit.
Until fairly recently, it was long associated with Ballantine’s
This beauty is from a first fill ex-Bourbon Barrel.
We’re expecting just 328 bottles, and we don’t expect that to hang around for long.
NOSE
Oooft…. Pulteney and first fill bourbon are the happiest of bedfellows. This is a dream to nose with toffee and tangy citrus.
TASTE
Citrussy again, juicy, creamy aak and hints of ice cream, becoming nutty, but fatty, cashews and macadamia nuts, leaves with an impression of salty lips.
ABOUT THE LABEL
We’ve had a label brief for the Pulteney distillery for a long time. It’s always been a distillery we’ve longed to bottle: A busy fishing harbour loaded with herring boats, with the ‘herring queen’ pageant underway.
The herrings were known as ‘silver darlings’. We’ve just made a silver darling our Herring Queen, against the backdrop of that busy fishing harbour.
