Invergordon 27 Year Old Single Cask Japan Exclusive
A 27 Year Old Highland single grain whisky bottled for Japan, only 50 bottles available in the UK. Vanilla fudge, salted caramel and dried apricot. Non-chill filtered. Natural colour. From the world's #1 independent bottler.
Limited to: 50 bottles in the UK
Only 10 left in stock
Invergordon 27 Year Old Single Cask Japan Exclusive
A 27 Year Old Highland single grain whisky bottled for Japan, only 50 bottles available in the UK. Vanilla fudge, salted caramel and dried apricot. Non-chill filtered. Natural colour. From the world's #1 independent bottler.
£150.00
Only 10 left in stock
Limited to: 50 bottles in the UK
— A NOTE FROM GREG & KIRSTY —
We weren’t going to release this whisky, it was going to be kept for private events and marquee events but sitting on it felt wrong. Twenty-seven years is a long time to keep something to yourself.
THE DOSSIER
TASTING NOTES
NOSE
Vanilla fudge first, warm and generous. Then salted caramel and dried apricot, the kind of quiet complexity that takes decades to develop. Nothing sharp, nothing aggressive. This is grain whisky that has earned the right to be unhurried.
PALATE
Silky, the cask has rounded every edge. Creamy toffee leads, with candied peel and a whisper of toasted oak following behind. The texture is the point here, this feels like something you should be drinking very slowly.
FINISH
Long and mellow. Soft spice fades in gradually and stays. There’s no abrupt end, it just gently dissolves, leaving warmth and a faint ghost of dried fruit. You’ll find yourself checking the glass to see if there’s more.
THE RIGHT BOTTLE IF…
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You’ve worked through Speyside and Highland single malts and you want to understand what serious single grain tastes like
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You’re buying a gift that needs to be genuinely unrepeatable, fifty bottles in the UK only as it was originally bottled for Japan… That’s your conversation starter
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You’re the kind of collector who reads the distillation date before the tasting notes
WHY THIS CASK
Invergordon produces roughly 40 million litres a year. Almost none of it appears as a named single cask because almost all of it goes straight into the Whyte and Mackay blends. Getting a 27 Year Old single cask from Invergordon and keeping 50 of them in the UK took considerable patience and a fair amount of luck. We weren’t looking for this specifically. It surfaced. We moved quickly. That’s usually how the best ones work.
THE DISTILLERY, HONESTLY
Invergordon gets described as ‘industrial’ a lot, which is fair. It’s a vast grain distillery in the Highlands that produces at scale for the blending industry. What that framing misses is that grain whisky aged properly in a good cask produces something fundamentally different from single malt: smoother, more approachable, often more quietly complex. Invergordon at 27 years is not a compromise. It’s a different kind of excellence.
THE CASE FOR THIS BOTTLE
Greg & Kirsty’s argument for why this cask earned its place in the range.
POINT 1
Grain whisky of this age at this price doesn’t come around often, the Japan market, which is considerably more demanding about whisky quality than most, agreed
POINT 2
We were named #1 Independent Bottler at the World Spirits Competition and we don’t release things we’re not proud of and this passed our threshold immediately
POINT 3
There are 50 bottles in the UK, when they’re gone they are gone
YOUR FIRST POUR
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Neat, in a Glencairn. Give it five minutes open before you drink as grain whisky at this age opens slowly, but trust us; your patience will be rewarded
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A few drops of still water is the move if you want the dried fruit to come forward, but don’t add too much as the texture is part of what you’re paying for
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If you’re sharing it, don’t chill it; one large ice cube maximum but room temperature is where this is best
🥇 GreatDrams — Named #1 Independent Bottler, World Spirits Competition
Single cask · 27 Years Old · Non-chill filtered · Natural colour · 50 bottles in the UK
♻ We reuse packaging where viable. If you’d prefer a new box, note it at checkout.
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