Or Sileis

Single Malt Scotch Whisky

King Arthur Series

【NO.10 – Sir Galahad and the Holy Grail】

About King Arthur Series

King Arthur single cask collection is the first independent bottler in Greater China, PICT, self-owned brand, Or Sileis, single cask selection.  It’s finely selected by Julie Lee, the judge of London area of IWSC.  There are 12 casks in total in the whole collection, and planned to complete the selection within 2 years.  The volume of each cask is varied, and each of them is cherry on top.

Or Sileis art director, Paul Houlders, has worked for the biggest on line game company, Electronic Arts.  One of his famous works is “Battlefield 1”.  With his great creativity, the label artwork of King Arthur collection will have more whisky lovers collect each cask.

Label Story

Galahad is one of the important members of Knights of the Round Table.  There is a mysterious woman telling the story of the Holy Grail that it brings a feast for all the knights.  Although no one is able to see or touch the Holy Grail, all the knights are determined to find the Holy Grail and witness its power.  They ignore King Arthur’s order and keep on searching the Holy Grail.  Galahad, Percival, and Borse are on the journey together, and accept Joseph’s Holy Sacrament. Joseph told Galahad to bring a blooded sword to a king’s castle, and use the blood on the sword to apply on the king’s torso and limbs.  Galahad did what he told, and the king became healthy again, and Galahad did witness the power of the Holy Grail as he wishes. 

Distillery Introduction

Speyside and was founded in 1957 by Chivas Brothers, It was originally planned to do three times distillation, however, this idea was abandoned in 1970, and became five stills instead of three.  It increased one more still in 1983 and became 6 stills in total, to achieve two times distillation. 

Glen Keith, Strathisla, Longmorn and Benriach launched Heritage Selection together in 1994.  Therefore, Glen Keith has the very first OB Single Malt- Glen Keith 10YO.  However, it stopped producing because of the close of distillery in 2000.  And Benriach is merged as well, the four distilleries together is not possible.

Glen Keith is positioned as a laboratory, to experiment new whisky production.  It is the first distillery to use gas heating still in Scotland in 1970, and installed computer equipment in 1980.  From grinding, mashing to distilling are all controlled by computers instead of manpower, in order to minimize the necessary manpower.  Other distilleries are able to apply this production model afterwards.  Glen Keith had been doing self-malting until 1976.  All the liquid it produced was for blended whisky.

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【Cask Information】

  • Cask Type:Sherry Hogshead
  • Cask Number:998
  • Year of Distillation:1993
  • Bottling Date:2018/8/21
  • Total Volume in Bottle:243
  • ABV:55.8%

【Tasting Note】

  • It appears the aroma of fruit candy in the beginning, and shows a bit stingy of apple later, it is like your childhood memory of apple cider.  The taste of apples is full of the mouth after taking a sip.  In the meantime, the stingy palate in the front of the tongue adds the variety of the liquid.  Though it doesn’t have a long finish, the taste of apples lingers in the mouth.