FiGee Whisky Scotland Selection

Chapter 7 Invergordon 1997 is a 26-year-old Highland single grain bottled by indie bottler Chapter 7 in their Monologue series. A long-aged grain release sits outside the mainstream blending trade — one of the rarer ways to taste the column-still spirit of 1997 standalone, in its hogshead-matured form.

MATURATION: filled to bourbon hogshead #72 in April 1997, matured twenty-six years, bottled October 2025 at 44.2% volume. 180 bottles total, natural colour, non-chill-filtered. The wood gave generously without dominating — precisely the right point of the maturation curve.

SUGGESTIONS: serve neat in a Glencairn at room temperature; let it open for five minutes before three drops of water amplify the citrus peel and clarify the creamy mid-palate. Pairs with an aged Manchego or a vanilla-led patisserie. Cigar match: a Dominican Connecticut, light enough to carry the malt's elegance.

Chapter 7 Invergordon 1974 is a Highland single-grain single cask of exceptional age — Invergordon is the Highlands' only grain distillery, on the Cromarty Firth. Standalone single-grain releases at this age are rare; the slow integration of column-still corn spirit and American oak makes this kind of ultra-aged spirit possible without the wood overrunning the distillate.

MATURATION: distilled November 1974, matured fifty years in a single bourbon hogshead, bottled October 2025 by Chapter 7 in the Monologue series. 239 bottles total, natural colour, non-chill-filtered, at 43.8% volume.

SUGGESTIONS: pour neat in a Glencairn at room temperature; let it open for five minutes before adding three drops of cool water to reveal the deeper register. A contemplative glass for a quiet evening, paired with a mild Dominican Connecticut robusto, or on its own. Not a cocktail base.

A single cask, single grain whisky, bottled in Scotland in July 2017, very limited only 216 bottles were released. Cask N° n.901556.