17 Year Old Whisky

An Un-Chillfiltered bottling of Glen Elgin from Signatory. Distilled on 20th October 1995, matured for 17 years in a pair of Hogsheads and bottled a few days after its birthday on 23rd October 2012.

A top-end 17 year old blend packaged in a unique squat bottle with a stud on the bottom to allow it to spin like a top when twiddled. Chivas Revolve is hardly ever seen on the general market.

Full-bodied, with creamy vanilla notes, this is one of the best blends available anywhere. A testament to the art of the master blender, and fiercely championed by Jim Murray.
Whisky Bible Awards 2011: World Whisky of the Year;
Whisky Bible Awards 2013: Scotch Whisky of the Year; 97.5 Points
IWSC 2012 - Gold Medal - Whisky - Scotch

A tasty-looking natural colour on this impressively high-strength 17 year old Glenlivet from the 1992 vintage. Bottled in 2010 for the distillery gift shop, and it's batch GL 17 011 for all the nerds out there.

An entry in the latin(-ish) named range from Benriach, stepping up from their 10 year old Curiositas with a 17 year old version of their peated Speyside dram. They say it harks back to the older peaty styles of Speyside whisky, we just say it's rather tasty.

A Murray McDavid bottling of Royal Brackla 1991.

A slightly mad Murray McDavid creation, taking 1991 Caol Ila whisky matured in Bourbon casks, and finishing it in casks that used to hold Quart-de-Chaume, a sweet white wine made with Chenin Blanc grapes from the Loire valley, for a total of 17 years of maturation.

A 1994 vintage Mortlach from Murray McDavid, aged for 17 years including some time in Rioja casks.

The second edition of the well received Solstice from Benriach, their port finished heavily peated single malt. This has spent an extra couple of years in cask compared to the first edition.

A limited edition single cask from Bruichladdich's Micro-Provenance series, detailing many details about the cask's handling to let the drinker see the influence of many factors. This was distilled in 1992, matured for 17 years in ex-bourbon American oak cask #1607, stored in dunnage warehouse 6 in the left 16 casks...

Imperial, after a stop-start production history, can now see the light after the announcement in 2012 that owners Pernod Ricard are to invest in a brand new distillery at the site. Check out the old make courtesy of this full strength hogshead of the '95 vintage from indie bottlers Signatory.

A special edition of Ballantine's 17 year old whisky, created to showcase the character of Scapa, one of the distilleries at the heart of the blend. A much underrated and often forgotten distillery, it's great to see its role being celebrated.

A hogshead of 1995 Macduff, bottled at full strength at the end of 2012 by Signatory for their Cask Strength Collection. You don't see a lot of these about, as most of Macduff's spirit goes into owner Dewar's William Lawson blend.

A 1995 vintage single cask whisky from Imperial, closed and being demolished at the time of this bottle's release, ready for a new distillery to be built in its place. This was aged for 17 years before being bottled by Berry Brothers and Rudd.

We're a big fan of 17 year old Caol Ila here at the Whisky Exchange and this special bottling for the 2011 Whisky Show is right up our street. A crisp and peaty example of the distillery's output.

A 1994 vintage Knockando bottled by the folks at Douglas Laing as part of their Old Malt Cask range. Matured for 17 years in a refill hoghead and bottled in late 2011.

A delicious Highland dram from Old Pulteney, this 17yo is comprised of 90% refill bourbon casks with the remainder being from Oloroso casks. Lovely sweet aromas of butterscotch, honey and chocolate, with some faint salt and oakspice on the palate.
World Whiskies Awards 2012 - Best Highland 13 to 20 years

A 1995 vintage whisky from Tamdhu. This whisky has been aged for 17 years. As with all whiskies in the Adelphi Selection, this whisky has been bottled at natural strength without chill-filtration.

Another fantastic invention from the workbench of Balvenie Malt Master David Stewart - a 17 year old version of the best selling DoubleWood. Still initially matured in 'Whisky Oak' casks before being switched to sherry wood to finish, the extra years give it extra depth without being overpowering.

After Glendronach's Christmas 2011 UK exclusive 1995 PX Puncheon release flew off our shelves we were rather keen on getting some more. So keen that we ended up buying a whole cask - #4682. Distilled on November 8th 1995 and bottled in March 2013 this is a big, chewy, sherried masterpiece. Fantastic Whisky.