THE COMMON
First fill bourbon
10YR
Orchard fruit, barley sugar, a dry finish that does not linger.
46.0%
SINGLE ESTATE / FLOOR MALTED / CASK STRENGTH
Nothing here is hurried
We grow the barley, malt it on our own floor, and fill into oak we chose ourselves. Four thousand casks are asleep in the warehouse and none of them will be bottled before they are ready, whatever the order book says.
05 expressions
The range
WAREHOUSE 3
Refill sherry butt
15YR
Dried figs and walnut, with the faintest coastal salt underneath.
48.2%
THE LONG SLEEP
Oloroso, single cask
21YR
Dark and slow. Leather, cocoa, and old oak that has stopped giving.
52.6%
CASK 0114
Refill hogshead
27YR
Beeswax and dried apple. Two hundred and eleven bottles, then never again.
50.9%
THE FOUNDER
First fill sherry
34YR
The oldest thing we have. Ask before you assume you want it.
44.1%
How it is done
- 01
BARLEY
120 acresGrown on the estate, cut in August, and never bought in when the harvest is poor.
- 02
MALTING
7 daysTurned by hand on the floor for seven days. It is slower and it is better.
- 03
MASHING
4.2 tOne mash a day in an open tun, worked at the temperature the brewer decides that morning.
- 04
FERMENTATION
96 hrsNinety-six hours in Oregon pine. Long enough to build the fruit rather than just the alcohol.
- 05
DISTILLATION
2 stillsTwo copper stills, run slowly, with the cut called by the stillman and not by a meter.
- 06
FILLING
4,100 casksInto oak we selected in Jerez and Kentucky, then into the warehouse, then left alone.
In the warehouse
4,100
Casks asleep across three warehouses
1,874
The year the first spirit ran
34 yr
Oldest stock still in wood
2
Stills, both original, both copper
Come and taste it out of the cask.
- Telephone
- +44 1340 871 204
- Distillery
- Caskwright Distillery, Craigellachie, Banffshire
- Established
- SPEYSIDE / DISTILLING SINCE 1874