Glenfiddich may well be the most famous name in single malt Scottish whisky. Only The Glenlivet comes close in terms of output, but Glenfiddich pairs its vast production with marketing and presentation that’s often a cut above the rest, whether it’s to your taste or not. Just take a look at their website or the stunning artwork on the presentation box for this 15 Year Old and you’ll see what I mean.

A few weeks ago I tried one of the bottlings from their experimental series: Project XX. It was genuinely interesting and made me want to revisit the dram that arguably sits at the heart of their core offering - the 15 year old. Let’s see what it’s like.

A long time ago, when I was a young teenager, I lived in Elgin for a few years and every time we had visitors from outside Scotland come and visit us, we did a tour of the Baxters factory in Fochabers and the Glenfiddich distillery in Dufftown. My parents weren’t really whisky drinkers, so I have no idea why they chose this distillery but I must have done the tour five or six times and it was my first real exposure to Scottish whisky. The distillery felt huge - at least that is my memory of it - and very industrial, nothing like the image so often portrayed by Scottish distilleries. Let’s see what it tastes like.