2008 Clynelish 10 Year Old "Signatory" K&L Exclusive 1st Fill Bourbon Barrel Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml)

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Goddamn I love Clynelish. I kind of just want to say the word over and over. Cline LEESH! Cline LEESH! Cline LEESH! It makes even better if you say it with me. The distillery was built in 1967 on the same site as the original of the same name. Due to malt shortages on Islay, the first distillery was fired back up in 1969 and produced some heavily peated malt that's now legendary, but the new distillery developed its own character and continues to produce some of the very finest malt Scotland has to offer. There's something about this weird little place on a small hill in the town of Brora that gets under your skin. The legends of the distillery are rampant and the feral cats as well. Clynelish is another of these blue chip Diageo malts that they don't like us to tour. I've heard of only a few people actually making it inside. Legend has it that the spirit coming off the still is unlike any other in Scotland. The spirit receiver is covered in an inch of thick waxy deposit. I've even heard that they cannot store the spirit in plastic as it seems to eat right through. Who knows if the legends are true, but the results after a decade of aging in exceptional wood speak for themselves. The crystalline purity and wild texture are what set it apart from the rest. That waxiness is still there in all its honeyed glory. 95% of the malt get's siphoned off for blends, so when we find a good cask we jump all over it. And this one sits right next to perfect. An absolute unit.