Craigellachie 2008 7 Year Old (cask 10995) - Clan Denny (70cl, 46%) ***sold***
7 year old Craigellachie single malt Scotch whisky, matured in a refill butt from 2008 to 2015. It was bottled by Douglas Laing for the Clan Denny range.
The town of Craigellachie is synonymous with Speyside whisky, but its eponymous distillery has only recently come into its own as a single malt brand. For the majority of the 20th century it was owned by White Horse Distillers, who became part of DCL (now Diageo) in 1927. Its malt was important to many of their blends, and as a result, the first official distillery bottlings did not appear until the 1990s as part of the Flora & Fauna and Rare Malt Selection series. Diageo eventually offloaded the distillery along with the John Dewar & Sons portfolio to Barcardi, who created a wellrespected permanent range for Craigellachie in 2014. Despite the limited availability of official releases prior to then, there were a number of independent bottlings like this that allowed connoisseurs to sample the distillery's famously sulphuric spirit.
The Clan Denny label was originally launched in the mid-2000s by Douglas Laing, and bottled by their subsidiary company, Hunter Hamilton. The brand specialised in bottling well-aged single grain whiskies from single casks. When Douglas Laing was carved up between brothers, Stewart and Fred, in 2013, the Clan Denny brand remained with Douglas Laing, and the Hunter Hamilton trading name became Douglas Hamilton. In 2017 it was reassigned to another subsidiary, Douglas McGibbon, and has branched out to include whisky from other categories as well.