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- Region: Scotland
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The same traditional methods and basic ingredients, barley, water and yeast, have been used to make Scotch whisky for over 500 years and Glengoyne is no different. However there is one subtle difference which does set Glengoyne apart from other malt whiskies in a class of its own.
Like all malt whiskies the barley (Glengoyne uses the notoriously low yielding, but famously high quality Golden Promise; the only other whisky to use Golden Promise is Macallan), is soaked in water and spread out on the floor of the malthouse and turned regularly. Usually once germination has taken place it is dried using the smoke from peat fires which imparts an aromatic smoky flavour to the drying malt. However, the Glengoyne distillery is different as it uses only barley that has been dried using warm air.
Glengoyne could be considered to be at one end of the malt whisky spectrum – clear, bright, subtle, complex yet delicate a contrast to the rugged malts of the northern Highlands or the pungent, medicinal heavy malts of Islay.