King Charles launches ANOTHER side hustle as he flogs £250 bottles of whisky made with barley from his Highgrove estate
KING Charles is flogging £250 bottles of whisky made with barley from his country estate.
His Highgrove Royal Gardens Single Malt is a limited edition of 400.
It is the most expensive whisky being sold by the estate, with the next one costing £130.
Each is numbered and comes in a gift box featuring a watercolour by His Majesty of the residence near Tetbury, Gloucs.
It promises connoisseurs a vanilla and orange peel nose, a hint of candied ginger and a lightly spiced finish.
The whisky is made by the award-winning Cotswolds Distillery in Stourton, Shipston-on-Stour, just across the county border in Warwickshire.
It is aged in premium active ex-red wine and first-fill bourbon casks at the distillery, the only one in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
It uses heritage Plumage Archer barley grown at the Highgrove Estate and traditionally floor-malted at Britain’s oldest working maltings.
The maltings, in Warminister, Wilts, is where the barley was first created in 1906.
The use of Plumage Archer “yields a subtle but unique twist” on the spirit, according to the royal estate, which the King rents from the Duchy of Cornwall — now controlled by his eldest son and heir, Prince William.
The estate shop offers a range of whisky and gin, often trading on their locally sourced or organic credentials.