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''The Auchentoshan Distillery lies northwest of Glasgow, at the foot of the Old Kilpatrick Hills in Dunbartonshire. Auchentoshan is Gaelic for ''corner of the field''. Even though the current distillery was founded in 1823 whisky was probably distilled here much earlier; the distillery is built on the site of an old monastery with the same name, and since the art of distilling came to Scotland via the monasteries whisky had probably been produced here long before the Auchentoshan Distillery received their licence. The earliest written record of the Auchentoshan Monastery is dated 1649.'' www.thewhiskyguide.com This is the oldest aged Auchentoshan, and is a VERY LIMTED PRODUCTION!!! Only 144 hand numbered bottles from this cask hit the market. It was casketed in sherry butts for a period of 50 years. After all that time it was finally bottled in 2007. ''It has a medium body and has a light aroma of fennel and eucalyptus is followed by a butterscotch and treacle like sugariness. A splas
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