After patiently ready, the cameras captured imagery of Glengoyne via solar, wind, ice and snow and created stunning solargraphy to point out the trail of the solar over Glengoyne, inspiring the creation of the brand new collection.
Launching Glengoyne’s Solstice Collection is Glengoyne Summer season Solstice, a restricted version expression of solely 168 bottles out there to buy, with an ABV of 59%. The bottling is the primary to be completely out there to Glengoyne Members of the family.
To create the expression, Single Cask Bourbon Barrel no. 294 was hand-selected by Distillery Supervisor Robbie Hughes, as he believed the cask completely mirrored the sunshine and fruity flavours that encapsulate a Scottish summer season. The cask, which had been maturing since 2008, delivers a deliciously fruity expression that provides notes of vanilla, strawberry coulis, banana, apricot and white chocolate.
On the nostril, the Glengoyne Summer season Solstice presents a mix of raspberry, desiccated coconut, white grape, lime, mushy oak, Swiss meringue and darkish espresso beans. The palette reveals a fruity and syrupy style earlier than revealing a stupendous end with notes of toffee and biscuit, paired with refreshing notes of citrus and gooseberry.
Robbie Hughes, Glengoyne Distillery Supervisor, mentioned: “I’m so happy to unveil the primary expression in Glengoyne’s Solstice Collection, with our Summer season Solstice expression. Impressed by a solography mission that befell at our distillery over 12 months, the expression celebrates the motion of the solar between the summer season solstices, signifying lengthy summer season evenings and the journey we’ve travelled from darkness to gentle.
“The whole lot we do at Glengoyne, we do with persistence, dedication and the understanding that perfection takes time. We’ve an exquisite group of whisky lovers who admire and perceive Glengoyne’s unhurried philosophy, so sharing this particular launch completely with our Glengoyne Members of the family is our means of thanking them.”
Glengoyne’s Solstice Collection celebrates each the longest and shortest days of the 12 months and the second expression, Glengoyne Winter Solstice, is about to launch this December.
Glengoyne Summer season Solstice is an unique launch out there solely to Glengoyne Members of the family and can be out there to buy on-line from 13:19 on the twentieth of June, to rejoice when the solar reaches its meridian level – the very best level within the sky.
Glengoyne is a part of Ian Macleod Distillers, one among Scotland’s main unbiased family-owned distillers. With household on the coronary heart of the model, Glengoyne invitations whisky aficionados who take pleasure in and rejoice Glengoyne everywhere in the world to change into a part of the Glengoyne Household. Becoming a member of the household permits unique first entry to uncommon bottlings, such because the Solstice Collection and invites to distinctive occasions. Members of the Glengoyne household can count on unique entry to the Winter Solstice expression, coming in December.
Glengoyne Summer season Solstice has an RRP of £260 and is offered to buyhttps://www.glengoyne.com/glengoyne-summer-solstice
For extra info on Glengoyne see: www.glengoyne.com. To affix Glengoyne’s Household, go to:glengoyne.com/join-our-family
