Single Malt Hogshead 'Full Cask' No 105
⏳ Drinking Window
Enjoyable immediately upon release and will remain stable indefinitely when stored in proper cellar conditions.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
blue cheese, dark chocolate, roasted venison
✨ Technical Specifications
Glen Garioch, nestled in the fertile 'Granary of Aberdeenshire', has been crafting robust Highland single malts since 1797. This expression, matured in a single hogshead cask, showcases the distillery's signature heavy, waxy, and deeply honeyed spirit. Hogshead aging—typically utilizing reconstituted oak casks—allows for a beautifully balanced maturation, marrying the distillery's robust, cereal-forward character with sweet vanilla, toasted oak, and orchard fruit notes. Single cask releases like this capture a unique snapshot in time, offering an unadulterated expression of traditional Highland craftsmanship.
🍾 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.
🍇 Base Material
Malted Barley