The exceptional Hart Bros. bottler is led by Alistair Hart, who has nearly 30 years of experience selecting single casks and managing the stocks for this excellent little bottler. Hart Bros. consistently bottles malts of exceptional quality and seems to have connections that few else can match. After our first effort importing casks directly from their bottled stock, we've stepped up to purchase exceptional whiskies straight out of their warehouses, which will be sold exclusively at K&L. This gorgeous barrel of nicely aged Glendronach represents a first for K&L and the USA—it’s the first independently bottled Glendronach (one of two barrels we purchased) we've ever seen in this country. If there has ever been an independently bottled Glendronach available in the US, it's been at least a couple of decades. This wonderful product, aged in a first-fill sherry butt, is everything we want from this distillery that they won't give us themselves. Richly complex with classic Glendronach sherry character, the existence of these casks is simply stupefying considering how difficult it is to get anything out of the distillery these days. And of course, it has not been chillfiltered!