American football has its quarterback, baseball has its pitcher, basketball has its point guard, and the whisk(e)y world has its Master Distiller, Master Blender, and Distillery Manager. We consider these people as impact players. Lochlea Distillery’s impact player is John Campbell. He’s their Production Manager and Master Blender who spent over 27 years at Laphroaig as their Distillery Manager. Given all that, we’re thinking he knows a thing or two about making really excellent whisky!
In today’s review, we’re discussing the Lochlea Our Barley Single Malt Scotch Whisky which comes from the Scottish Lowlands. Here are a few words about this dram taken directly from the Lochlea website:
Our core single malt expression, Lochlea ‘Our Barley’ sits alongside our seasonal limited-edition whiskies. It is made from and inspired by our barley, grown here on Lochlea Farm.
Production Director John Campbell has carefully honed this recipe using his years of experience, using a combination of first-fill Bourbon, Oloroso Sherry and STR casks. This results in a whole new level of depth and complexity to the final whisky. Lochlea ‘Our Barley’ is non-chill filtered with no added colouring.
This all sounds delightfully delicious! To find out if it really was, click play on the following video:
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Many thanks to Impex Beverages for sending us these very generous samples!
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