Glenesk 5 Year Old 1980s

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.

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