Dufftown-Glenlivet 8 Year Old Miniature

Dufftown-Glenlivet 8 Year Old Miniature

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Dufftown-Glenlivet 8 Year Old Miniature
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HED71569

5 cl

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£11.50
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Dufftown-Glenlivet 8 Year Old is a Speyside single malt distilled and bottled by Arthur Bell & Sons during the 1970s. This 5cl miniature reflects an era when Speyside distilleries appended the Glenlivet suffix to signify a premium, lighter style of spirit. Production at this time focused on providing the heart of Bell’s blends, featuring a mash bill processed through traditional floor maltings and short, bulbous stills. The profile delivers a syrupy mouthfeel with notes of malted barley, toasted cereal and wax. While bottled at 40% ABV, the spirit maintains a robust oiliness typical of older production methods before modern high-efficiency filtration. This expression serves as a primary example of pre-Diageo Speyside character where dry aromatic spices and a medium, slightly peaty finish define the dram.

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Dufftown distillery is one of seven whisky distilleries in and around the Banffshire town of Dufftown (the others being Glenfiddich, Balvenie, Mortlach, Glendullan, Kininvie and Convalmore).

Now one of the largest producers in Diageo’s whisky distillery portfolio, Dufftown was founded by the Dufftown-Glenlivet Company in 1895. For most of the 20th century the distillery was under the ownership of Arthur Bell and Sons, who used the its single malt in their flagship blended whisky.

Though generally known for this purpose (most of Dufftown’s prodigious output goes into blends such as Bell’s, with only 3% produced as single malts), Dufftown began to establish reputation for its single malts (made in a grassier Speyside style than the malty style associated with Bell’s) with the advent of the Singleton of Dufftown brand.

In recent years there has been only one other official house bottling – a Flora and Fauna 15 year-old – though a number of others released during the 1990s are still on the market. Independent bottlings of Dufftown single malt have been scarce, with Signatory, Whisky Galore and Murray McDavid among the most notable.

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