The Glenlivet 14 Year Old Conglass - Single Cask Edition (70cl, 59.8%)
A single cask Glenlivet, bottled from cask #41723 on the 18th February 2014.
The name comes from Conglass Water, a meandering stream that flows through Tomintoul, a few miles from the Glenlivet distillery.
Single malt Scotch whisky from The Glenlivet distillery, matured in a single hogshead cask (#41723) for 14 years before being bottled in February 2014 at 59.8% ABV. The name, Conglass, comes from the Conglass Water, which flows through the Highlands and eventually meets the Livet.
Well-known as the oldest licensed distillery in Scotland, for many years ‘Glenlivet’ was a byword for quality, with many single malts using the Glenlivet suffix in an attempt to reap the benefits of associating themselves with the Banffshire distillery. Indeed, owners Pernod-Ricard now put a heavy focus on the brand being ‘The Glenlivet’, encouraging their consumers not to accept any imitations. Glenlivet is in a long-running battle with Glenfiddich for the title of best-selling single malt, with both now selling over a million cases a year. George Smith secured a license to legally distil at Glenlivet in 1824, and it remained family-run until 1978 when Seagram bought a controlling stake in what had by then become The Glenlivet Distilleries Ltd, and counting assets such as Glen Grant, Benriach and Longmorn among its portfolio. When Seagram collapsed in 2001, Pernod-Ricard acquired its sizeable Chivas Brothers Scotch whisky division, with Glenlivet the crown jewel in an empire rivalled only by Diageo.