Glenlossie 31 Year Old

Artful Dodger Glenlossie 1992
Speyside Single Malt Whisky / 31 Years Old / Hogshead / 55.8% abv / 50cl

Distilled in 1992 at a distillery almost nobody gets to taste on its own. Glenlossie has spent most of its life quietly feeding the blends, which is a shame, because the purifiers on its spirit stills send the heavier vapours back for another go and leave something unusually clean, bright and oily behind. Thirty-one years in a hogshead have turned that into citrus, salt and a flinty edge you’d expect from somewhere far more windswept than Elgin. The kind of cask the blenders like to keep for themselves. We didn’t let them.

Conspirator’s Notes
Nose: Floral first, then salt and flint like wet stone on a beach. Tangerine peel cuts through the middle and toasted hazelnut settles in underneath. Thirty-one years old and it still smells wide awake.
Palate: Orange and lemon, bright and juicy, nothing tired about it. Candied ginger brings the warmth and a bit of bite, and that clean Glenlossie spirit keeps everything tight and focused rather than letting the oak take over.
Finish: Long and warming. The citrus fades slowly into gentle oak, with the candied ginger hanging on and a last hint of salt and hazelnut drifting back from the nose. Clean, unhurried and very easy to go back to.