Glengoyne 14.
Southern Highland · Distilling since 1833
Unpeated and orchard-sweet — the flight's baseline dram. Taste it first, and let it set the scale for everything that follows.
The Gauger's Ledger
One cask, measured.
- Cask№ 1391 · refill American oak hogshead
- FilledAutumn 2011, Dumgoyne
- BottledJanuary 2026, Kirkwall
- Outturn1,044 measures of 20cl
- ColourNatural — nothing added
- FiltrationNone — non-chill filtered
Gauged & bonded, Kirkwall — every figure above is from our own dip of the rod.
Official Tasting Notes
What we found.
- NoseGreen apple, cut hay, heather honey.
- PalateToffee, malted biscuit, soft vanilla oak.
- FinishMedium, clean, gently drying.
Against its siblings — no peat, no sherry theatrics. This is the control dram; whatever you meet later that isn't here, that's the variable.
Your Dram Log
Now, what did you find?
The official notes are one gauger's opinion. Log your own — we'll hold them here for when you pour the next dram.
The Distillery
Glengoyne, Dumgoyne.
Glengoyne sits at the foot of Dumgoyne hill, where the Highland line crosses the road — the stills stand in the Highlands while the casks sleep across the lane in the Lowlands.
The barley is air-dried, never peated, and the stills are run slower than any others in Scotland. The result is a deliberate, unhurried spirit — orchard fruit and honey with nothing to hide behind.
“Smugglers once worked the glen behind the distillery — the gaugers of the day rarely caught them. We had better luck: cask № 1391 was the pick of nine we dipped.”
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The Other Two Drams
