Glenesk 5 Year Old Lowland Whisky – 1980s Vintage

Description

Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling 750ml / 40%

A rare official bottling of Glenesk 5-year-old Highland single malt whisky bottled in the 1980s by DCL subsidiary Wm Sanderson & Son. This is a rather unusual young Glenesk OB originally bottled for the Italian market, with the standard Sanderson official bottling of the day being a 12-year-old.

Glenesk distillery provided a keystone malt for the VAT 69 blended Scotch whisky in its heyday and was also sometimes known as Hillside distillery – most notably in the superb Rare Malt Editions versions released in the mid-1990s. Owners DCL (who later morphed into Diageo) closed Glenesk / Hillside in 1985 at the height of the whisky lake crisis, although the distillery’s maltings are still operational today under the Belgian malting giant Boortmalt.

Attributes

Explore more from our collection.