Glendronach 12 Y.O. Ruffino Import

The fascination of Scotch Whisky's centuries-long history also lies in the changes in style that distilleries have gone through over the decades, sometimes due to production choices, sometimes due to market choices. Glendronach, a distillery founded in the first half of the 1800s, is now known for its explosive Single Malts and rightfully called monster sherries, but if we taste this rare 12-year-old distilled in the 1960s and imported to Italy by Ruffino Import, we will discover unexpected worlds.

The in-house malting floor was still active at the time, and the use of a small amount of peat is clearly discernible on the nose and palate, with earthy, smoky hints. In addition, the style is delicate, on fruity and citric hints, masterfully built on the balance of woods that had already lost liveliness over the decades and brought rather finesse and a polite smoothing of the edges of the white distillate.