Denni U.Verified purchaseOct 2026
OverallPerfect addition to my whisky collection. The taste is amazing.
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Glen Elgin
14 Year
45.3% ABV
Speyside
Moscatel Sherry Cask
$160.00
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Tasting Profile
Rich & Dried Fruit
Intensity
Bright & Fruity
Secondary
THE FIRST WONDER
The Inaugural Release from Wonders of Whisky · Glen Elgin 2011 · 14 Year Old Single Cask · Moscatel Sherry Cask · 66 Bottles for the United States
Region Speyside
Distillery Glen Elgin
Age 14 Years
ABV 45.3%
Cask Single Moscatel Sherry Cask, Full Term
Profile Rich & Dried Fruit
Peated No
USA Allocation 66 Bottles
Every whisky tells a story.
This one marks a beginning.
The Occasion
FROM THE GLASS TO THE BOTTLE
For seven years, Sunil Dyal stood on the other side of the pour, never in front of it. He built a whisky community 30,000 strong, one conversation at a time. He designed the glass he thought whisky deserved, and had The Professional mouth-blown one at a time in Europe. He hosted the WoW Tasting Experience and sat across the table from brand ambassadors, distillery managers and the people who run the industry. Few bottlers have poured for more people than he has: collectors, aficionados and curious first-timers alike.
In 2026, for the first time, he put his own name on a bottle. One cask, chosen the only way he has ever trusted: by what the glass tells him.
This is The First Wonder. The Whiskey Lab is the only place in the United States to buy one of the 66 bottles.
The whisky is a Glen Elgin, distilled in 2011 and matured for more than 14 years in a single Moscatel sherry cask, full term, from the day it was filled to the day it was bottled. Not a finish. Not a few months of colour on top of bourbon wood. Fourteen years of one of the rarest sherry casks in Scotch, working on one of Speyside's most quietly admired spirits.
Glen Elgin's new make is heavy and fruity, the product of old-fashioned worm tub condensers, and it is exactly the kind of spirit that can carry a sweet, aromatic cask for 14 years without being buried by it. The Moscatel gives honey, orange and dried stone fruit. The distillery gives the orchard fruit, the malt and the weight underneath. The result is a whisky that reads as a dessert on the nose and a proper Speyside malt on the palate.
Bottled in the Netherlands at 45.3%, natural colour, non-chill filtered. The United States received 66 bottles. When they are gone, the release is over, and the first Wonder will not be repeated.
One Cask
Every bottle comes from a single cask. Zero replication.
14 Years
Matured for more than 14 years before it was chosen for release.
Moscatel, Full Term
The whole life in one Moscatel sherry cask, not a finish.
66 Bottles
The entire American allocation, only through The Whiskey Lab.
Distillery Profile: Glen Elgin
- Built in 1898 at Fogwatt, south of Elgin, to a design by Charles Doig, the architect of the pagoda roof. It opened in 1900, just as the Victorian whisky boom collapsed, and was the last new distillery Speyside would see for nearly 60 years.
- Six stills, condensed in worm tubs: coils of copper lying in cold water outside the stillhouse. Less copper contact than a modern condenser, so the spirit comes off heavier, fruitier and waxier. Very few Diageo distilleries still work this way.
- For most of its life its job has been the White Horse blend. Official single malt is limited to a 12 year old, which is why independent single casks like this one are the main way to meet the distillery on its own.
- House style: ripe orchard fruit, honey, a waxy texture and a long, malty finish. A spirit that stands up to sherry wood without disappearing beneath it.
Cask Profile: Moscatel Sherry
When whisky drinkers think of sherry casks they think of Oloroso or Pedro Ximénez. Moscatel is different. It is made from Muscat of Alexandria grapes grown in the sandy coastal vineyards around Chipiona, sun-dried on mats and pressed into an intensely aromatic dessert wine: orange blossom, honey, apricot and raisin.
Casks that held it are scarce. In Scotch they turn up almost only as short finishes, a few months of sweetness on top of a bourbon-matured whisky. A full 14 year maturation in a single Moscatel cask is genuinely rare, and it is why this whisky tastes the way it does. The fruit is not sitting on the surface. It is in the grain of the spirit.
One cask. It cannot be recreated.
What to Expect in the Glass
The cask leads with honeyed raisin, candied orange and dried apricot. Underneath, Glen Elgin's rich malt, a run of baking spice and a gentle, well-mannered oak. The finish is long and sweet without being sticky. At 45.3% it needs no water, and it rewards time in the glass: the Moscatel aromatics keep building for a good twenty minutes after the pour.
- Honeyed raisins
- Candied orange
- Dried apricot
- Baking spices
- Rich malt
- Gentle oak
- Lingering sweetness
Notes from Wonders of Whisky. Tasting notes are a guide. Your experience will vary with glassware, time and water.
The Origin: Seven Years of Pouring for Other People
Wonders of Whisky began in 2019 as a single Instagram account, a place for Sunil Dyal to talk whisky with people who cared about it as much as he did. No advertising, no shortcuts. Just a following that grew past 30,000, one conversation at a time.
Somewhere along the way he noticed the glass in his hand was not doing justice to what was in it, so he fixed that too. His sister company, VESL, now designs and produces each vessel by hand, one at a time, in Europe. Then came the events: live sessions with brand ambassadors, distillery managers and CEOs from across the world, a podcast, and the signature WoW Tasting Experience, which sold out its inaugural South Florida edition three weeks before the doors opened.
By 2026 Sunil had spent seven years in the room with the people who make whisky. A cask of his own was never a leap. It was simply the next room to walk into.
The WoW Promo
Anyone who purchases The First Wonder receives 40% off The Professional, the mouth-blown tasting glass from Wonders of Whisky, in Clear, Carbon or Black. It is the glass this whisky was chosen in.
Use code the1wonderpromo at wonderswhisky.com. One use per customer.
A man who spent seven years pouring for 30,000 people finally chose a cask of his own: Glen Elgin, 14 years in a single Moscatel sherry cask, full term. Distilled in Scotland, bottled in the Netherlands, 66 bottles for America. The first Wonder. There will never be another first.
| Specification | Details |
|---|---|
| Brand | Wonders of Whisky |
| Release | "The First Wonder", the inaugural release |
| Style | Single Cask Single Malt Scotch Whisky |
| Distillery | Glen Elgin (Fogwatt, Speyside; not named on the label) |
| Region | Speyside |
| Distilled | 2011 |
| Age | 14 Years |
| ABV | 45.3% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Maturation | Single Moscatel sherry cask, full term |
| Peat | Unpeated |
| Bottled | 2026, in the Netherlands |
| USA Allocation | 66 Bottles, exclusively through The Whiskey Lab |
| Non-Chill Filtered | Yes |
| Natural Colour | Yes |
The Whiskey Lab's Quality Commitments
- Single Cask: One cask, one bottling. Every bottle of this release came from the same Moscatel cask.
- Natural Colour & Non-Chill Filtered: Nothing added, nothing taken away.
- Honest Storytelling: Every cask profile and every tasting note on this page was written by people who tasted the whisky.
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Thomas P.Verified purchaseOct 2026
Overalljust the best and delivered ontime and in perfect condition
