AnCnoc 16 Year old & 18 Year old Single Malt Review
AnCnoc comes from the Knockdhu distillery in Banffshire, so while it does classify as a Speyside distillery the AnCnoc brand are all labelled as Highland whisky, which makes sense as the AnCnoc range doesn’t really taste like the traditional Speyside style that Glenlivet have created. Interestingly it’s the only distillery from Scotland that I know where the single malt is not directly named after the distillery it comes from (Edit: clearly i was having a senior moment here, Kilkerran is another example of a single malt not named after it's distillery, in this case, Glengyle). Knockdhu gets its name from the Gaelic of the nearby ‘Black Hill’. AnCnoc (pronounced a-nock) means ‘the hill’ in Gaelic. The distillery opened in 1894 and the stills were originally coal fired but these days are heated by steam jackets and it worked continually until 1931 when prohibition and eventually world war and barley restrictions affected it. It was bought over by Inver House in 1988 and was probably...
