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This is one of just a handful of Carsebridge bottlings I've ever seen, and the first and only one to come to KWM in recent memory. It was distilled distilled in October 1965, filled in to a Refill Hogshead cask, 1187, and bottled at 41.5%. Only 12 bottles are coming to Alberta, exclusively to KWM.
About Carsebridge Distillery: The distillery was opened in 1799 ‘near the Carse Bridge in the parish of Alloa’, on the other side of the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh. The distillery produced malt whisky until 1852, when having noticed the increasing demand for grain whisky, the owner John Bald the 2nd, installed a pair of Coffey stills (continuous or grain stills), converting the distillery to a Grain distillery. The Distillery would become the second largest in the Country, second only to Edingburgh's Caledonian distillery. In 1877 the distilery was one of the fonding partners of DCL or Distiller's Company Limited. The distillery was closed in 1983 and its buildings demolished in 1990. The last vestige of the ditillery, its cooperage, was closed in 2011 and moved to Cambus distillery.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: treacle sauce on sticky toffee pudding, Werther's Caramels, sugar plums and orange peels from an Old Fashioned; sticky, Panda brand licorice, cinnamon sticks and candied ginger; quite decadent and sugary: demerara and brown sugar.
Palate: woody, decadent, old and musty; Jujubes, more treacle sauce and Werther's Caramels; angostura bitters and orange peels with Demerara sugar, spicy rye and silky grainy oils; more Panda licorice, sugar plums and some soft leather.
Finish: long, elegant and silky; toasty with fading grains.
Comment: only just starting to show a faint bitter edge, a sign of its advanced age.
Producer Tasting Note
“The nose is sweet with vanilla custard, butterscotch and pear drops. Smooth and creamy on the palate, with gentle notes of vanilla, pears and apples. The finish is long and dry, with fruit and oak coming through.”