This whisky is a spiritual cousin to America's homegrown spirit.
. While this particular 23-year-old vintage contains some of the first liquid to be aged in that type of cask, in 1999 the distillery introduced a 15-year-old expression that was finished in new charred oak, and today those casks are part of the makeup ofSignet. This was all the result of Dr. Bill Lumsden being appointed director of whisky creation in 1998, the year this new release was distilled.
Most of the first lot of heavily charred new oak was used to finish whisky that was already mature to impart new flavor into the spirit, but Lumsden also decided to fill some barrels with new make. 23 years later, we can finally taste the results. “In 1998, I had all sorts of ideas for new and delicious whiskies,” said Lumsden in a press release. “And one my first experiments was with new charred oak casks.
Grand Vintage Malt 1998 the eighth release in the ongoing series of Bond House No. 1 whiskies, named after an old warehouse at the distillery that was transformed in 1990 into a stillhouse which now holds 12 of the signature tall-necked stills. Other vintages range from 1989 to 1997, making this new whisky the most recent of the batch. You can find it online now at
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