It’s one of the Highlands’ best kept secrets – in the heart of Scotland, at a site with well-preserved beauty, is a distillery that perpetuates its own craftsmanship. This is an ancestral craftsmanship that forges the intensity of the malts upon contact with impressively tall stills. ‘The same height as a giraffe’, they constitute a genuine curiosity among distilleries. Their height of over 5 meters allows for only the lightest and purest vapors to reach the very top of these long copper necks, making for a sweeter and purer whisky. This new sunny softness imagined by Glenmorangie is bringing its exceptional refinement to Malmsey de Madère wine barrels in contact with Bacalta for the very first time – this allows for a unique prolonged aging process.
Bacalta, which means “warm” in Scottish Gaelic, was created using a custom-made aging process. The barrels, specially made for this very process, are made using air-dried American oakwood boards, then scorched to bring out the finest flavors. Then, Malmsey wine enters the mix. Originating from the island and warmed by natural sun rays for over two years, it naturally espouses this fabulous Glenmorangie whisky that has already been aged in casks containing bourbon.
The sunny softness of Glenmorangie Bacalta becomes a soft and sweet flavor when tasting it. Rich, syrupy, and heightened, as characteristic as ever, the eighth release of the famed Private Edition offers a new and deep complexity to that rare final wooded aroma.
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