Glengoyne is a distillery that can seem plain at a young age but shines astonishingly brightly at greater maturity due to the lightness of the spirit and the fact that it is unpeated - a quality on which the distillery has always placed great emphasis. The wider truth is that Glengoyne is a great whisky, and what’s in the bottle speaks more than clearly enough for itself.

Glengoyne was rebuilt in 1967, when its worm tubs were replaced with condensers, new steam heating was installed in the stills and, most unusually, a second spirit still was added. The best examples of Glengoyne hail from these years. Casks distilled between the late sixties and early seventies are, almost without exception, all fantastic. The biggest hallmark of these bottlings is fruit: lush, intense fruit.