Old Pulteney 25 Year Old
Old Pulteney · Pulteney Distillery
Pulteney's coastal location is not marketing theater — it is climate. Twenty-five years of aging in Scotland's most northerly mainland distillery town means persistent wind, cold, and slow maturation. The result is whisky that tastes like the place that made it, with extraordinary balance between richness and maritime restraint.
Nose
Coastal brine opens first, giving way to layers of dried apricot, honey, and old polished wood. A faint whiff of orange oil and vanilla emerges alongside waxy almond notes.
Palate
Silky and expansive, with salted caramel meeting dried fruit and clove spice. The oak is refined after a quarter century — firm but never bitter — and waves of honey and malt carry through the mid-palate.
Finish
Long and gently drying, with woody spice, lingering honey, and a final saline-mineral echo that recalls the North Sea.
- Region
- Highlands
- Cask Type
- Ex-bourbon and ex-sherry
- Peat Level (PPM)
- Unpeated
- Distillation
- Pot still distillation using Pulteney's distinctive flat-topped wash still
- Maturation
- Matured for 25 years in a combination of ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks
- Chill-Filtered
- Non-chill filtered
Food Pairing
Cold-smoked salmon lightly glazed with wildflower honey bridges the whisky's maritime salinity and its honeyed sweetness, while the fish's oily richness matches the silky texture.
Built in 1826 in the herring-boom town of Wick on Scotland's far northeast coast, Pulteney Distillery has spent two centuries battered by North Sea gales, its slow-maturing casks shaped by salt air and relentless cold.
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