Meikle Toir The Chinquapin One

Guided by revered Master Distiller, Billy Walker, our team is on a ‘Meikle Tòir‘ (meaning ‘big pursuit’). The goal: to carefully craft and cask-perfect a peerless peated single malt at our Speyside home, The GlenAllachie Distillery.

Aged in superior Chinquapin virgin oak barrels sourced from the Northern Ozarks of Missouri, this single malt delivers robust notes of sweet spices and toasted nuts which join the peat smoke. Coming in at 35 PPM, the whisky has a sweeter style of smoke character owing to the mainland peat from St. Fergus used to kiln the barley. After a lengthy 160-hour fermentation, the whisky has a complex character which stands up well in virgin oak casks.

Smouldering oak embers, burnt liquorice and honey, with ginger, butterscotch and orange peel. Cocoa, crème brûlée and toasted almonds, with cinnamon, aniseed and campfire smoke.