End Date : Apr 02 2025 08:00 PM
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One cask of Miltonduff Single Malt Scotch Whisky distilled in 2011 currently maturing at Duncan Taylor in Scotland. Annual storage fees currently stand at £70.58 + VAT per year and the new owner must make arrangements directly with the warehouse after the sale. Contact details will be given by the current cask owner.
This cask was re-gauged 10-02-2025. The new re-gauged litres were found to be approximately 189.24 bulk litres at a strength of 61.27%. This would currently yield approximately 270 x 70cl bottles of cask strength whisky, currently 13 years old, turns 14 years old in April 2025.
- Distillery: Miltonduff
- Originally filled: 25-04-2011
- Current age: 13 years old
- Cask number: 900062
- Cask type: Bourbon Barrel
- Original filled with: 171.90 litres of alcohol
- Current cask strength: 61.27%
- New re-gauged bulk litres: 189.24 litres
- Currently yielding: Approximately 270 x 70cl bottles
Ownership of this cask is auctioned here in bond. The buyer will have ownership transferred to them once payment is processed post sale. Any costs relating to removal from the bond or bottling will be the responsibility of the new cask owner.
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Whisky-Online Auctions Tasting Notes:
Nose:
Spirit forward and every bit of its 61.2% alcohol. With dustings of oak and vanilla acting as a support act. Initial wafts of Acetone, pear drops and nail polish underpinned with simple vanilla, baking spices, black pepper and dried coconut. Persistence will uncover some juicy fruit in the form of pineapple and mango chews and a touch of floral heather. Dilution brings a more rounded affair with the sharper alcohol reeled in slightly.
Palate:
A medium mouthfeel with the dance now being led with floral lavender and our old friend acetone, pear drops once more with a more linier spice offering from oak shavings offering a pleasant hum on the tongue. Added water encourages more tropical fruit and a more disciplined balance between spirit and cask influences.
Finish:
Mellowing and medium-long with initial spice dissipating into soft water melon and a touch of thin custard.
Comments:
A well accomplished dram from a workhorse distillery, offering the purchaser the option of dilution for added balance. Or even a longer maturation to let the angels do their work and bring the symphony into an even greater harmony.
Miltonduff distillery is a large, quiet Speyside workhorse, spending its days providing spirit for Ballantine’s blended whisky, with which it has been associated since 1936 when Ballantine’s owner Hiram Walker bought the distillery. Miltonduff and Ballantine’s became part of Pernod Ricard’s portfolio when former owner Allied Domecq was gobbled up by Pernod in 2005. In 2022 a major expansion plan was announced for Miltonduff that will take the distillery’s capacity to almost 16m litres per year.
In 1964, during the Hiram Walker days, Miltonduff was fitted with a pair of Lomond stills, on which the experimental Mosstowie single malt was produced until 1981. Independent bottlings of Mosstowie can still be found at auction, with excellent examples by Signatory and Sestante. Official bottlings of Miltonduff are rare, but there have been some great casks over the years from the likes of Gordon & MacPhail, Duncan Taylor, the SMWS and the Italian bottlers Sestante, Samaroli and Moon Import.
A private bottling is a cask of single malt or single grain whisky that has been bottled privately by its owner or owners, and usually bottles are not released for public sale. Private bottlings may sometimes be bottled for their owners by the distillery of origin, but are not official bottlings by that distillery.
Alternatively, if the cask is not housed at the distillery where it was made, it may be bottled either by another distillery or private cask storage facility, or transported to a third party commercial bottler.
Private bottlings used to be relatively common, a legacy of the whisky lake of the 1980s, when distilleries had excess stock and were desperate to offload their inventory. These kinds of casks rarely make it to private bottlings nowadays - casks that were very inexpensive twenty or thirty years ago have shot up in value, and distilleries have scrambled to buy back privately-owned casks of their own spirit, while cask owners are rarely short of offers from brokers or independent bottlers.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £3,500.00 | 2nd April 2025 | 08:23 AM | |
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