Old Pulteney 12 Years are matured in hand-picked air-dried ex-Bourbon casks. As a winner of countless gold medals, Old Pulteney is 12 years an excellent representative of the distillery’s unique whiskey style.
Taste comments
The color is dark gold. The scent is medium to very intense, dry with notes of sea and salt. The taste is dry with medium body, soft and creamy and lightly salted with fine sherrynotes.
Old Pulteney Single malt 12 years 40% 70cl
Item no: Smal0378
In the fishing village Wick All Northern Leave in Scotland, this small distillery is facing the North Sea. A real “sea whiskey” which for many years could not be found at all.
Color: Røggålden with a weak pink tone.
Nose: between to high intensity, between to high complexity. Very dry and closed aroma. Touch of beach (sand and seaweed).
Taste: Dry and “leg”. Intermediate and soft.
Aftertaste: Dry bitter short rounding. Clean and easy to drink.
Old Pulteney 12 years win Gold and Best In Class at International Wine & Spirit Competition 2006
Old Pulteney is Scotland’s northernmost distillery on the mainland, located at Wick’s historic harbor.
Old Pulteney is founded in 1826 by James Henderson, and the house’s malt style is called “the maritime malt” with reference to taste and location.
Old Pulteney is rightly counted for one of Scotland’s very best singlemalts, and in Jim Murray’s Whiskey Bible 2012, the 21 year old Old Pulteney is choron to:
* The world’s best whiskey (all categories) with 97.5 points out of 100.
* Scotland’s best whiskey.
* Best singlemal (all categories)
* Best singlemal in class 16-21
