Glen Scotia whisky

Glen Scotia is one of the three working distilleries in Campbeltown, with Springbank and Glengyle. It was founded in 1832 as Scotia Distillery and is part of Loch Lomond Group (Glen Scotia). This page lists the Glen Scotia bottles we track with the best current UK price, from Double Cask and the 12 and 15 Year Old to the 18.

For the distillery history, see Glen Scotia on Whiskipedia. Prices are the best current in-stock offer from the UK retailers we check (how we compare prices).

How Glen Scotia makes its whisky

The distillery’s process page gives these details:

• Barley: malted barley arrives weekly from near Montrose on Scotland’s east coast. Peated spirit is made over about six weeks a year.
• Long fermentation: the current average fermentation is 128.8 hours.
• Double distillation: in copper pot stills, run slowly.
• Casks: mainly first-fill and refill American oak and bourbon casks, with finishing casks from sherry to wine and rum.
• Warehouses and bottling: three styles of warehouse on site, palletised, racked and dunnage; bottling and labelling take place at the sister distillery near Loch Lomond.
• Strength: the core 12, 15 and 18 Year Old and the Double Cask releases are bottled at 46% ABV (Glen Scotia range).

Glen Scotia Double Cask

Current price: £39.00 at The Whisky Shop.

First-fill bourbon with a PX finish

What we like: Glen Scotia Double Cask, now sold as Double Cask Sherry, matures in first-fill bourbon barrels and then spends 12 months in Pedro Ximénez sherry casks, and is bottled non-chill-filtered at 46% ABV (Glen Scotia). We found a creamy mouthfeel and earthy, spicy flavours: crema catalana, redcurrants and pink grapefruit, then thyme, mixed peppercorns and oak in the spicy finish.

Glen Scotia 12 Year Old

A classic Glen Scotia from first-fill bourbon casks

What we like: Glen Scotia 12 Year Old matures only in first-fill bourbon barrels and is bottled at 46% ABV, at natural colour and non-chill-filtered (Glen Scotia). We found it full, creamy and heavy: brioche with salted butter and vanilla cream, tropical pineapple and peaches with cream, damp tobacco and nutmeg, and a prickle of mixed peppercorns on the finish.

Glen Scotia 15 Year Old

Current price: £54.95 at Hard To Find Whisky.

Blackberries and dark chocolate

What we like: Glen Scotia 15 Year Old is matured in first-fill bourbon and refill American oak casks, with a very short finish in oloroso casks, and bottled at 46% (Glen Scotia). Its character is rich and heavy: blackberries, prunes and dark chocolate, then fried onions and, from mid-palate, deep, spicy oak. The finish is long, warm and dry, with charcoal, tar and a fine prickle of mixed peppercorns.

Glen Scotia 18 Year Old

Current price: £115.00 at Master of Malt.

An older Campbeltown malt with an oloroso finish

What we like: Glen Scotia 18 Year Old spends 17 years in refill bourbon casks and refill American oak hogsheads, then a 12-month finish in first-fill oloroso casks (Glen Scotia). We liked its rich, creamy mouthfeel and its notes of semolina pudding with blueberries and strawberries with whipped cream. Cereal and lemon peel lead on to sea salt and hints of seaweed. The spicy finish has intense charred oak.

Glen Scotia Double Cask Rum Finish

Current price: £40.22 at The Whisky Barrel.

Finished in Guyanese rum casks

What we like: Glen Scotia Double Cask Rum Finish matures in American oak barrels and is finished in Guyanese Demerara rum barrels, at 46% ABV (Glen Scotia). We found it mild and creamy, with pineapple sorbet, brown cane sugar and a trace of coconut. Sea salt, green pepper and earthy mineral notes mark the mid-palate, and the short, warming finish has a trace of cayenne.

Campbeltown Malts Festival Edition

A medium-peated Glen Scotia with a ruby port finish

Glen Scotia releases a limited Campbeltown Malts Festival Edition each year. The 2026 edition is a 7-year-old medium-peated malt, matured in first-fill bourbon casks and finished for six months in first-fill ruby port casks, at 53.9% ABV (Glen Scotia).

What we like: we tasted a 7-year-old medium-peated festival bottling finished in ruby port casks, but did not record its release year. We found raspberries and redcurrants with vineyard peaches and dried mango, plenty of dark chocolate mousse with caramel pieces, and hints of smoked almonds. The prickly peat lingers with smoked oak and a trace of port.

Glen Scotia 10 Year Old

A Glen Scotia sold in the US

Glen Scotia 10 Year Old is bottled at 40% ABV and sold on the distillery’s US site; it is not part of the UK range, so this page shows no UK price for it.

What we like: we found it mild, soft and silky: green apples, lemon peel and pineapple with rice pudding, savoury notes of vegetables fried in oil, freshly cut grass and sea salt. Short, oak-led finish.

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