Cardhu Pure Malt 12 Year Old 1 Liter [Old Release]

Strongly perfumed. This is a highly aromatic malt, often described as being one of the more feminine single malts available.

This ‘pure’ malt was believed to include spirit from up to four other distilleriesas well as Cardhu. Cue an almighty uproar, with questions asked in Parliament, Diageo vowing to stand firm andthe rest of the industry threatening legal action against Diageo for misleading customers and devaluing the status of single malt whisky. Thankfully the scale of this hullabaloo was sufficient to force Diageo into withdrawing the Pure Malt version of Cardhu (which has now become something of a collector’s item), and re-instating the brand as a single malt, to general relief.

Cardhu is normally sold as a 12 year old, although following the success of a couple of Rare Malt expressions at the end of the 1990s, a 22 year-old cask strength version was issued as part of Diageo’s Special Releases in 2005. Theyear after, a no-age-statement Special Cask Reserve expression was also released and has proved a success. Cardhu is also a key constituent in the Johnnie Walker blend. For reasons which should be very clear, independent bottlings of Cardhu are extremely rare to non-existent.