GlenScotiaVictoriana(700mL)

<p>Glen Scotia Victoriana is bringing sexy back to Campbeltown single malts.</p><p>Distilling in the Kintyre Peninsula dates back more than 400 years to 1609. The hamlet of Campbeltown was founded in 1832 and quickly became known as <em>“The Whisky Capital of the World.” </em>The era of Prohibition and the subsequent emergence of Highland single malt dominance ended <em>the reign of Campbeltown.</em> Glen Scotia is a more recent branding by the Loch Lomond Group in an effort to recreate the magic of Campbeltown’s bygone era.</p><p><em>Glen Scotia Victoriana</em> starts with their classic Campbeltown-styled single malt aged in first-fill ex-Bourbon barrels. How long it is aged at this stage is a bit of a mystery since Victoriana is a <em>“non-age-statement” </em>(NAS) Whisky. The kicker is that this little sexy gem is then finished in <em>deep-char virgin oak casks</em>, which adds extra vanillin and a deeper, richer color. And they aren’t messing around, serving it up at 54.8% ABV. Your taste buds and the newly minted<em> Double Gold Medal</em> it just received in San Francisco will both tell you that it turned out pretty darned good indeed.</p>