Wandering Willie
Drawing from the 17th-century tale of the blind fiddler who played with spirits and saints alike, Wandering Willie blends history with craft. Speyside and Highland malts from 2009, aged in refill hogsheads and finished in double-toasted virgin European oak, then married in a 1000L French oak foudre.
Bottled at cask strength without chill-filtration or colouring. Presented in a beautifully crafted gift box.
Nose: A grassy menthol like note on the nose with vanilla and heather.
Palate: Unctuous and elegant at the same time, peachy with a beautiful balance.
Nose: A grassy menthol like note on the nose with vanilla and heather.
Palate: Unctuous and elegant at the same time, peachy with a beautiful balance.
Frequently under the influence of many fine drams, Willie was a wandering blind fiddler who told allegorical Border tales in many an inn during the late seventeenth century. His finest concerned a local tenant who when paying his rents and covenanter’s dues, scraped together with great difficulty and undue hardship, failed to gain a receipt for his payment from the local Lord, Sir Robert Redgauntlet before he died. In the absence of any written proof, the Redgauntlet’s heirs greedily prosecuted for payment again.
The despairing tenant rides out one night, after fortifying himself with local spirit, to plead for release. On his journey he meets a stranger who when regaled with the problem promises to bring him to the old Redgauntlet himself for the receipt. Of course, the parable has him encounter the recently departed Laird, carousing with his dead friends in hell, having been judged unworthy in life. But, Redgauntlet grants him his receipt perhaps as payment due for uncharitable acts when alive and the fortunate tenant survives to drink another day!
Frequently under the influence of many fine drams, Willie was a wandering blind fiddler who told allegorical Border tales in many an inn during the late seventeenth century. His finest concerned a local tenant who when paying his rents and covenanter’s dues, scraped together with great difficulty and undue hardship, failed to gain a receipt for his payment from the local Lord, Sir Robert Redgauntlet before he died. In the absence of any written proof, the Redgauntlet’s heirs greedily prosecuted for payment again.
The despairing tenant rides out one night, after fortifying himself with local spirit, to plead for release. On his journey he meets a stranger who when regaled with the problem promises to bring him to the old Redgauntlet himself for the receipt. Of course, the parable has him encounter the recently departed Laird, carousing with his dead friends in hell, having been judged unworthy in life. But, Redgauntlet grants him his receipt perhaps as payment due for uncharitable acts when alive and the fortunate tenant survives to drink another day!
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