Glengoyne: my new home dram
14. Glengoyne (12yo, 43%) A lovely wee distillery lodged at the bottom of Dumgoyne Hill. I've moved house recently which has given me a new 'home' distillery. The very pretty little Glengoyne distillery in Dumgoyne is only about 8 miles or so from where I live now so it seemed as good a spot as any to continue my virtual tour after a couple of years' break. (I'm not in a hurry to complete the tour, so a couple of years maturing quietly is perfectly acceptable to my plans, such as they are). So, Glengoyne. The distillery's USP these days is the fact that its products are entirely unpeated with the barley air-dried only, just as it has been since the distillery first began producing whisky (legally) in 1833. The reason this drying method was originally chosen has everything to do with a dearth of peat in the Dumgoyne area and nothing to do with trying to achieve a certain flavour profile or creating a marketing lever. But the air-drying tradition has been
