Old Ballantruan - 10 Year Old 70cl Bottle

Product Description

Old Ballantruan, now released with an age statement & distilled at Tomintoul.

Colour: Rich gold. Nose: Gently spicy with smokey peat-reek deliciously balanced by a sweeter creamy core. Palate: Some gentle peaty smokiness equipoised with a sweet, creamy, malty backbone. Finish: Climbing finish of sweetness gradually replaced with smokey depth. The two companies which formed Tomintoul Distillery searched the local area for the purest water source & after a year of testing various springs found one on Carn Ballantruan, a hill midway between the village of Tomintoul & Glenlivet, from which water of the highest quality flowed. This was named the Ballantruan Spring. The spring has probably been there for millions of years in this sparsely populated area & was a major discovery for the company which decided to build the distillery adjacent to the water supply. The 50% ABV was selected as being different to the other peated single malt whiskies which were on the market.