From the Ardnamurchan Distillery at the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in Argyll, Western Highlands of Scotland.
This UK Exclusive, Cask Number 339, Unpeated Oloroso Sherry Butt, Non Chill-Filtered and Natural Colour was distilled in 2014 was then bottled at Cask Strength of 59.4% by Jess Hamilton on 01/11/2021.
Each bottle is individually numbered and limited to only 655 bottles.
Each step at the Distillery has been recorded and written to the blockchain shown on the bottle QR scan code.
Tasting Notes: Dark cherry liqueur, chocolates and dried seaweed, plums, peaches and oranges, then a more savoury marmalade glazed smoked ham on the finish.
At Ardnamurchan Rather they do not operate around one “Master Blender", they have a six-person blending team that decides collectively on every drop that they put into a bottle to send around the globe.
This very special opaque slate blue bottle denotes a single cask offering a subtle homage to the Ardnamurchan peninsula, emulating the similar colour of the volcanic rock surrounding the distillery.
The Distillery offers these special bottlings to countries, regions, supply chain partners, or whisky clubs that have proven themselves particularly committed to spreading the word of Ardnamurchan whisky through the sales of their core range.
When the blending team noses a sample of a particularly characterful cask, we sometimes will pull the cask aside and designate it as worthy of a single cask bottling. We package dozens of these single cask bottlings every year, entirely matured in one cask and typically bottled at natural cask strength, thereby hearkening back to our Adelphi roots as a single-cask, cask-strength bottler.
The Ardnamurchan peninsula is famous for its outstanding and untouched beauty and abundance of natural resources. The Distillery is situated half way along the peninsula in the small village of Glenbeg. It was designed to both look like a distillery and to fit in with the surrounding buildings.
All the power and heat requirements for Ardnamurchan Distillery come from local renewables, the river that provides the distillery’s cooling water has a hydro-electricity generator, solar panels provide the energy and the biomass boiler is fuelled by wood chip from local forestry. The overall footprint of the distillery is a light one.
In addition, the co-products of the whisky making process are recycled on the peninsula. An example of this being the still energy rich draff, a co-product from the mashing, is combined with the pot ale to produce animal feed for the use on the peninsula.
The entire process has been designed to create an overall flavour profile that is expected of the West coast of Scotland, gentle peat smoke, rich and oily with honey, fruit and salinity on the palate.
The Distillery use blockchain technology to store the production information about each and every bottle they make. Some of this information can be accessed by scanning the QR code on the back of each bottle of AD Whisky. You can learn everything about its provenance, from barley to bottle for full transparency.
The Ardnamurchan Distillery is on the most westerly point of the Scottish mainland. This area has a rugged and timeless peninsula which takes a good 90 minutes to drive west from Fort William to the distillery.
Due to this remote location the distillery has a local circular economy. All the power and heat requirements come from local renewable energy supplied within 2 miles of the distillery. The Hydro electricity is supplied from the river which also supplies the cooling water and the wood chip for the biomass boiler is delivered by tractor from the nearby sustainable forest.
Ardnamurchan Distillery
Ardnamurchan Distillery
Ardnamurchan Distillery
Ardnamurchan Distillery
Ardnamurchan Distillery
Ardnamurchan Distillery
