Loods of Whisky Festival botteling 2024

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by Single Malt Snob

A 13 year old Glenrothes in this review

I need to stop telling about how much I buy through scrolling online or on socials.
But this is, again, such a story.

While scrolling on Instagram, I noticed a post by @womenintowhisky about a festival bottling. Petra, the kind lady behind the account, organises a nice whisky festival in Groningen, in the northern part of the Netherlands, and that festival just happens to have a festival bottling.
Always looking for indie bottles, I decided to send a question to her on the chat:
” Hi, I’m not capable of joining the festival this year, but I would really like this bottling, can I order it?”  
The answer came quick and I was able to order this bottle and it was shipped to me.

This festival bottling is a 13 year old Glenrothes, aged on a 2nd fill shery butt.
While the festival itself was in 2024, this dram was distilled in 2008 and bottled in 2021.

This dram has a very nice yellow color, that has a slight tinge of going to a more orange hue if you catch it in the right light. It was [lees verder].