Annandale Man OSword Vintage 2015 – Bourbon Cask | 700ML

Introduction

Whiskey: Annandale Man OSword Vintage 2015 – Bourbon Cask | 700ML

Smoky single malt from the Annandale Distillery! Released under the Man O’Sword name (that’s how we know it’s peaty the Man O’Words are the unpeated expressions from Annandale).

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Size: 700ML

Proof: 121.8 (60.9%ABV)

Origin: Scotland

Distillery: Annandale

Smoky single malt from the Annandale Distillery! Released under the Man O’Sword name (that’s how we know it’s peaty the Man O’Words are the unpeated expressions from Annandale). This whisky was distilled in 2015 and allowed to age in a single ex-bourbon cask before being bottled up at 60.9% ABV. We’ve seen some excellent expressions from the relatively new distillery, so it’s well-worth keeping you eye on it…

Annandale Man OSword Vintage 2015 – Bourbon Cask | 700ML Tasting Notes

Nose: Ripe mango and charred pineapple, with hints of toasted cedar developing.

Palate: Spicy peat and creamy vanilla make for a well-balanced palate.

Finish: Nutty barley and dry smoke.

Distillery Information

Annandale Distillery was established way back in 1836 by George Donald, an Elgin-based excise officer who named the site after the valley it sits in just 15 minutes from the English border. Using water from the Guillielands Burn for cooling and power and from Middleby Burn for the whisky, the Lowland site functioned for nearly a century, once capable of making 28,000 gallons of spirit annually and even passing through the hands of John Walker & Sons before whisky making ceased in the early 1920s. It was later a production line for the Provost porridge oats breakfast cereal brand, but before long the buildings fell into a state of disrepair. Thats how things remained until 2007 when Annandale caught the eye of a husband-and-wife/business partner team. Professor David Thomson, an expatriate Scot, was looking for a project that would anchor his life back to his native Scotland while Teresa Church was keen to find work that supported her enduring passion for restoring old buildings. Annandale ticked all the boxes and so began an extensive 10.5 million restoration project that culminated in the restoration of Annandale Distillery in 2014. Whisky flowed from the stills on Annandale again on 3 November 2014. The whole production setup was built under the guidance and supervision of the late, great Dr. Jim Swan, who had known Thompson since the mid-1980s after theyd met at a sensory conference in London. Swan advised the use of traditional wooden washbacks and helped source high-quality casks. The distillery produces both peated and unpeated single cask, single malt bottled at cask strength, often inspired by Scottish heroes. The peated whiskies are bottled under the Man O Sword name after King Robert the Bruce, Scotlands warrior king and the 7th Lord of Annandale, while unpeated whisky is presented as Man O Words after Robert Burns, the Scottish Bard and once an exciseman in Annandale). There was also an Outlaw King Blended Scotch whisky released in 2019 to celebrate the Netflix film of the same name.