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GlenAllachie's 12 impressed me with Billy Walker's vision for the place — transformed since 2017 from quiet blend-fodder into a cult single malt. The 15 doubles down: an unashamedly sherried wave of raisins, dates, figs, caramel and dark chocolate, with cherry cordial and orange marmalade before a drier finish. Big, bold Speyside in the GlenDronach mould — does the extra age earn its keep?
GlenAllachie is one of the new breed of distilleries — forward-thinking, but built on decades of expertise. When master distiller Billy Walker and his partners took over in 2017, they transformed it from a blend supplier into a single malt name in its own right. The 12-Year-Old is the cornerstone of that reinvention, and the bottle that put GlenAllachie on the map. Worth the hype?
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