Infrequent Flyers Batch 8 ‘North British Distillery’ 26 Year Old Marsala Finish 700ml 52.1%

Single Grain Whisky. Release No. 59 from Cask No: 5742 that yielded 231 bottles.

Details
700ml: 52.1%alc
Age: 26-year-old
Region: Lowland
Cask type: Marsala finish
Bottler: Alistair Walker Whisky Company
Distillation Date: 1995
Distilled at: North British Distillery

Description
Here’s a real age statement single grain scotch whisky that was distilled at North British Distillery in the Lowlands of Scotland in 1995 before spending 26 years maturing in a Marsala hogshead and then bottled at 52.1% ABV. With a single cask yield of only 231 bottles, these whiskies never last too long as the 7 batches before this have all sold out in no time. The whisky is bottled in its most authentic form – un-chill filtered with natural colour.

About Infrequent Flyers
The ‘Infrequent Flyers’ range is a series of single cask bottlings of Scotch whiskies brought to us by Alistair Walker, of Deanston, Tobermory, BenRiach, GlenDronach and Glenglassaugh fame. The expressions are predominantly single malts, though now and again Alistair does release a single grain, just like this North British expression. The brand name ‘Infrequent Flyers’ refers to the nature of many of the casks that are bottled – often whiskies from lesser-known distilleries that are of excellent quality, but have never been widely or consistently available.

About North British Distillery
The North British Distillery is a grain whisky distillery located on the western outskirts in the Gorgie area of Edinburgh, Scotland. Established by a group of independent distillers in 1885, it is now a joint venture company between Diageo and Edrington Group. It is Edinburgh’s last working distillery, affectionately known as the “NB”. Whilst it took just over 100 years for North British to produce 1.5 billion litres of alcohol, modernisation enabled the company to reach the 2 billion litres milestone just ten years later in 2008, and achieve 2.5 billion in 2015