Ardbeg 21 Year Old, Committee Reserve 2001

Rare limited release 2001 Ardbeg Committee bottling. A vatting (or blended-malt) of 12 ex-bourbon casks from 1979 & 1980.

2,500 bottles.

Ardbeg is generally peaty, rich, smooth and very complex. Sweet malt, sea salt, dried fruits and rich Islay peat reek. Subject to closures, most recent reopening was 1998; the new 10 year was unveiled in 2008.

Product Details

Age: 21 Years Old
Volume: 70cl
ABV: 56.3%
Bottler: Distillery Bottling

Caperdonich 36 Year Old, Duncan Taylor Rare Auld

Single cask #7446. Bottled 2009, this is a 36-year old Caperdonich from the award winning Duncan Taylor, Rare Auld series.

283 numbered bottles.

Founded in 1897 and opened in 1898 with the somewhat reductive title of Glen-Grant No 2 Distillery. It was conceived at a time when whisky sales were on the up and up, Glen-Grant needed extra capacity and so a new distillery was commissioned. No 2 opened when whisky sales crashed and subsequent wars and prohibition inhibited a recovery. And so having closed in 1902 it remained mothballed until 1965 when the stills were fired up once again. Closed again in 2002, and still closed.

Product Details

Age: 36 Years Old
Vintage: 1972
Volume: 70cl
ABV: 51.1% (Cask Strength)
Bottler: Duncan Taylor

Brora 30 Year Old, 2002 Release

A much sought after malt from the closed Highland distillery. The first official bottling of Brora for the Diageo Annual Release series.

3,000 bottles released in 2002.

Founded 1819 and renamed Brora in 1975. From the early 1970s until closure in 1983 it produced a highly peated malt. Still in situ after a quarter of a century of silence are its red brick chimney, pagoda, bellcote topped with gilded weather cock, external wooden worm tub, miniscule gauger’s house and two wee copper stills.

Product Details

Age: 30 Years Old
Volume: 70cl
ABV: 52.4%
Bottler: Distillery Bottling

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