Wanted … Whisky Lovers to Choose Single Cask Bottling

Cask Idol – the search for the perfect dram – is a once in a lifetime opportunity to become part of the Glengoyne selection panel and help choose the first ever Glengoyne Distillery exclusive single cask whisky, to be bottled in 2011.

For £70 visitors are able to join the hunt on a tour of the distillery and warehouse no.8, as well as a tasting of Glengoyne’s previous three single cask releases. Guests then judge three mature samples drawn from the cask and are asked to write their own tasting notes for each. The most popular cask will be announced in April 2011 and released with one lucky fan’s name and tasting notes displayed on the label.

Joining the already highly popular and acclaimed selection of Glengoyne tours, along with the new Cask Idol tour, is A Century of Whisky.  A Century of Whisky (£150 per person) includes a tutored tasting of Glengoyne Distillery’s oldest, most valuable, and finest Highland Single Malt: the Glengoyne 40 Years Old, worth £200 per dram, as well as the exceptionally rare Isle of Skye 50 Years Old blended Scotch whisky. These two unparalleled whiskies, along with the Glengoyne 10 Years Old, represent a century of maturation.

Each dram will be tasted in its own bespoke crystal ‘copita’ glass, which guests take home as a memento of the day.  This is a truly unique opportunity to taste rare and expensive, top quality whiskies. Only 400 bottles of the Isle of Skye 50 Years Old blended Scotch Whisky, and 250 crystal decanters of the Glengoyne 40 Years Old Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky were produced, costing £1,000 and £3,750 respectively.

Visit Glengoyne at www.glengoyne.com