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SCOTCH MALT WHISKY
Fettercairn 22 Year Old
47.0% | 70CL
1-3 Business Days
€ 219,95
Quantity
SOLD OUT
Geographic location
Scotland, Highland
Product details
Matured for 22 years in first fill American ex-bourbon casks, this single malt showcases the signature tropical character derived from the copper cooling ring distillation process unique to the Fettercairn distillery and honours the approach to whisky making.
Tasting notes
Banana, citrus fruit and plum, combines with raisin, fig and ginger bread. Spiced pear, caramelised orange and coffee, tempered by liquorice that then makes way to morello cherry, plum and treacle.
FOUNDING FETTERCAIRN
The founder, Sir Alexander Ramsay was one of the Scottish landowners who campaigned to license Scotch Whisky distillation. In 1824, he was one of the first to apply for a license, and the Fettercairn distillery was opened. But despite Ramsay’s campaigning for regulation, he was a canny businessman, and he recruited illegal whisky makers to be his first stillmen. In the mid-1950s, the whiskymakers at Fettercairn experimented, seeking ways to create a purer expression of their spirit. They found that pouring water down the still cooled the copper, increasing condensation inside so only the lightest vapours could rise for collection. They fashioned a copper tube around the top of the still to continually douse it with water - an ingenious and practical solution which remains unique in Scotch whisky-making to this day.
