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SCOTCH MALT WHISKY
Fettercairn 46 Year Old
42.5% | 70CL
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€ 9.999,95
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Geographic location
Scotland, Highland
Product details
Distilled 8th May 1973 and aged in American white oak ex-bourbon barrels and finished in Tawny Port pipes.
Tasting notes
Over-ripe bananas, toasted bread, citrus fruit and plum, giving way to raisin, bitter chocolate, fig and spice. Spiced pear, coffee, caramelised orange and liquorice. Followed by black cherries and treacle with a finish of plum, Demerara sugar and chocolate.
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.
