No. 9 Original
12 Year · 43% ABV
Honey · orchard fruit · warm oak
Ex-bourbon oak
Meet this dram →YEARS IN OAK
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Cask No. 9 · est. 1887 · Glenardoch Valley
Aged in
patience.
Scroll, and watch eighteen years pass inside a single glass — from the barley field, through the oak, to the pour.
01 / The Grain
Two-row barley, malted slow.
Local barley steeps, chits and dries over a peat-lit kiln for three days — the only step that decides the spirit's soul before the still ever sees it.
02 / The Cask
American oak. Sherry-seasoned staves.
New-make spirit goes into oak at 63.5% and waits. Every year in the dark, the wood gives up caramel, spice and colour — the glass beside you is filling as you read this.
03 / The Angel's Share
Some of it, we give to the air.
Roughly two percent of every cask evaporates each year through the oak — a loss distillers have always called the angel's share. We've never begrudged it.
04 / The Pour
Nose it. Taste it. Keep some for later.
Reservations require proof of legal drinking age.
Reserve a bottleThe range
Three expressions. One patient distillery.
Cask Strength
Batch 14 · 58.4% ABV
Toffee · ginger · dark chocolate
Virgin oak finish
See tasting notes →25-Year Reserve
25 Year · 47% ABV
Dried fig · walnut · old leather
Oloroso sherry cask
See tasting notes →How it's made
Five steps. No shortcuts.
01
Malt
Two-row barley steeps, chits and dries over a peat-lit kiln for three days.
02
Mash
Milled grist meets hot spring water in the mash tun, releasing fermentable sugars.
03
Ferment
Wild and house yeast work the wort for 68 hours in Oregon-pine washbacks.
04
Distil
Two copper pot stills — wash still, then spirit still — concentrate the heart of the run.
05
Mature
New-make spirit rests in oak for years, sometimes decades, in a stone warehouse.
Tasting notes
Nose, palate, finish.
Every cask is nosed and tasted by hand before it's approved for bottling. This is the wheel our stillman uses to describe what he finds — three rings, moving outward from first scent to last echo.
- Nose
- Honey · Orchard fruit · Vanilla oak · Peat whisper
- Palate
- Toffee · Ginger spice · Dried fig · Dark chocolate
- Finish
- Long · Warming · Smoked oak
Our valley
Glenardoch — a valley that makes its own water.
Cask No. 9 sits where a peat burn meets a spring-fed river, six miles from the coast. We draw process water from the same source the distillery used in 1887 — soft, faintly peated, and never shared with another whisky.
- Founded
- 1887
- Warehouses
- 7 dunnage
Recognition
"Time you can taste."
Reserve
Reserve a bottle from Cask No. 9.
Book a tasting at the distillery or set aside a bottle from the current release — a front-end demo, and proof of legal drinking age is required either way.