Speyside 14 Yrs - Cask Strength

Creamy milk chocolate with tangerines, toasted hazelnut and a clear citrus note which develops into lemon zest. After a while a floral note appears like honeysuckle. The overall mouthfeel is nice and smooth with a medium length, clean and fresh finish.

Versatile, since it can serve as an aperitif with a spaghetti vongole appetizer, but also with a light and creamy dessert – think crème brûlée. All in all, a very friendly and well-balanced single malt to revisit time and again.

Speyside distillery started to produce in 1990 but its history goes back to 1956 when George Christie acquired a piece of land near Kingussie. He commissioned dry stone dyker Alex Fairlie to hand build a distillery on the site, which work commenced in 1962. It took 28 years to complete the works, during which time the distillery changes ownership. The company was taken over two more times and is now owned by Harvey’s of Edinburgh International.

In 2025 production ceased altogether, the buildings have been taken down and a new distillery (which will bear a different name) will arise about 20 miles from the current site. So, all Speyside single malts bottled by Saltire now come from a ‘lost’ distillery, which makes these expressions truly rare!

Water source
River Tromie

Malt source
Commercial maltsters

Capacity
600,000 litres of alcohol per annum

Location
Kingussie, Highlands

1 semi-lauter mash tun (4.2 ton)

6 stainless steel washbacks

fermentation time 70 hours short and 120
hours long

1 wash still

1 spirit still