Loch Lomond 24 Year The Open Course Collection: 2024 152th Royal Troon Manzanilla Sherry Cask Highland Single Malt Whisky RFLASH and Galicia

and Galicia

culminating in beautifully balanced bitterness

with clay soil

a whiff of honeysuckle — without the Condrieu ransom

off the estate's classed-growth Saint-Julien vineyards (Gruaud Larose only began converting to organic farming in 2019)

Loch Lomond 24 Year The Open Course Collection: 2024 152th Royal Troon Manzanilla Sherry Cask Highland Single Malt Whisky RFLASH and GaliciaA 24 year old Highland malt released for The Open at Royal Troon, and the cask is the part worth talking about. Loch Lomond has been the official spirit of The Open for years, which usually means a commemorative box and not much more, but here they've taken genuinely old whisky and finished it in Manzanilla sherry casks. Manzanilla is the leanest and saltiest of the sherries, aged on the coast at Sanlucar, and it's an unusual pick for whisky: instead