With meticulous craft and respect for our natural ingredients, we create a delicate distillate with gentle hints of blackcurrant, red berries and citrus – perfect for maturation in our sherry casks. Each day, our master distiller noses every batch of this new make spirit, considering every detail before allowing it to be poured into our specially selected casks and left to mature into Aberlour single malt whisky. Working together to create the perfect cask to complement our new make spirit, our casks are built and prepared to our exact specification of Spanish oak and conditioned with Oloroso sherry. Finally, when the sherry has finished imparting its rich flavours, we aim to bring the casks to Scotland in the cold winter months, to help preserve their qualities. Almost without exception, all of our single malts are made from liquid aged in both sherry casks and American oak casks. Over many years, the wood of the sherry cask adds a certain sweetness and rich, warm fruity notes. The American oak gives notes of vanilla and a mellow, smooth finish. When combined by the experts of Aberlour, the result is a single malt of rare sophistication. - Aberlour.
