Single Malt Barrel 'Full Cask' No 7366
⏳ Drinking Window
As a distilled spirit, it does not age further in the bottle and can be enjoyed immediately or kept indefinitely if stored properly.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, dark chocolate, roasted game
✨ Technical Specifications
Glen Garioch, nestled in the fertile Garioch valley of Aberdeenshire, has long been celebrated for its robust, deeply textured Highland spirits. Single cask releases, often designated as 'Full Cask' or by specific cask numbers like No 7366, represent the pinnacle of the distillery's artisanal output. These expressions are typically drawn from a single oak barrel, capturing an unfiltered, cask-strength snapshot of a specific distillation run. Historically, the distillery relied on local barley and the pristine waters of the Percock Hills, imparting a distinctively rich, honeyed, and heather-accented profile. This style of single cask bottling showcases the intense interaction between the heavy spirit and the wood, resulting in a complex dram layered with orchard fruits, warm spices, and a whisper of Highland peat smoke from the distillery's historic malting era.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1797 by John and Alexander Manson, Glen Garioch (pronounced 'Glen Geery') is one of Scotland's oldest continuously operating distilleries and the most easterly distillery in the Highlands. Located in the market town of Oldmeldrum within the fertile Valley of the Garioch—historically celebrated as the 'Granary of Aberdeenshire'—the distillery benefits from prime regional barley and mineral-rich water drawn from the Silent Spring of Coutens Farm. Under the ownership of Suntory Global Spirits via Morrison Bowmore Distillers, Glen Garioch underwent a transformative renovation to reinstate traditional floor maltings and direct-fired copper wash stills. This classical production architecture, coupled with a 50-hour fermentation cycle, imparts a signature robust, honeyed, waxy profile with notes of orchard fruit and warm malt cereal. Celebrated for its non-chill-filtered, high-strength releases, benchmark expressions include the flagship Founder's Reserve, the 12-Year-Old, and vintage cask-strength single malt bottlings.