Ben Nevis 1970

34 year old Highland 50.3 % vol

1 of only 186 bottles from cask 4640

This is the first time Adelphi has bottled a single cask blend, but the opportunity was too good to miss. Blended on site at Ben Nevis in 1970, and matured in the same cask ever since, this drinks like a single. Deep natural colour. An unreduced nose of glace plums and greengages, with a whiff of cigar boxes and marzipan, and a fresh hair lacquer scent behind. With water it remains sweet and dense, with a trace of vinyl, but it is the flavour that is unusual: big and complex, sweet and remarkably citric (tangerines), incredibly fresh for its age, slightly mouth-drying and with a long finish. This is as good a ‘blend’ as we have ever encountered.

 Gold Medal winner, Whisky Magazine Independent Bottlers' Challenge 2005

<<< Back