With Glenrothes aborting the use of vintage statements after the most recent redesign of their core range, Balblair is now the pre-eminent distillery still using vintages.
It's not super important to know the distillery, but if I did know where this was produced, than I could've at least congratulated them on it. Excellent!
Speyside Distillery is one of those anonymous distilleries. To me at least. They tried to change that by hiring Michael Owen as spokes person, but that didn't pan out. Also, their name is a bit unlucky, as it can cause quite a bit confusion. Plus, are they really Speyside?
A 25 Year Old Ardbeg by The Duchess, distilled in a period in which the distillery was only operating two months out of every year. Very rare to see bottlings from this period.