North British North Star Single Cask 30 Year Old

North Star Spirits has released a remarkable addition to their 10 Year Birthday Bottling series: a 30-year-old North British single grain whisky from 1995. This exceptional bottling was matured in a refill hogshead and bottled at 50.2% ABV, with only 436 bottles produced. The release celebrates both North Star Spirits' milestone and North British's storied heritage, a distillery founded in Edinburgh in 1887 to challenge the grain whisky monopoly of the time.

Production and Character

Long-aged single grain whisky typically exhibits a particularly smooth and polished style, and the refill hogshead allows that maturity to shine without excessive wood influence. Three decades of maturation have woven together vanilla, soft toffee, gentle oak and sweet grain notes into a mellow, approachable profile with considerable depth and complexity.

Tasting Notes

Nose: Vanilla fudge, light coconut, honey and polished oak.

Palate: Smooth and rounded, with notes of caramel, sweet grain, soft spice and gentle oak.

Finish: Long and mellow, with lingering vanilla, oak and a touch of toffee.

This is a release for serious Scotch whisky collectors, priced at £59.95.