Glen Spey is a little-known Diageo-owned workhorse distillery in Rothes, Speyside (the town is also home to Glen Grant, Caperdonich, Glenrothes and Speyburn). The distillery was founded in 1878 by James Stuart, who sold it shortly after buying Macallan eight years later. The buyers, W & A Gilbey (more famous for their gin), were the first ... Read More »
A medium-bodied Glen Spey 1995 bottled for G&M's Connoisseurs Choice range. Glen Spey's pleasant, grassy single malt is rather rare as most of it goes into J & B.
A 1986 vintage whisky from Glen Spey, not often seen as a single malt, even from independents. This one was matured for 25 years before being bottled in 2012.
A 1981 vintage Glen Spey from Berry Brothers & Rudd, the oldest family owned independent wine and spirits merchant in the world. This one has matured for about 30 years before being bottled at 46%.
One of the most exciting of 2010's Special Releases, this 1989 Glen Spey is the first mainstream bottling of note from this distillery, and is comfortably the oldest OB Glen Spey ever released. A vatting of new American oak casks 'that had also held sherry'.
A very rare bottle from rarely-seen-as-a-single-malt Glen Spey. It's a 12 year old bottled as a "Manager's Dram", given to friends and employees of the distillery and not often seen up for sale.
Bottled by Diageo as part of their Managers' Choice series of single cask bottlings from each of their distilleries, this Glen Spey 1996 is creamy and nutty, with hints of coconut betraying its new American oak maturation. Best consumed neat.