LOT ID: 0223-1252
End Date : Mar 22 2023 08:33 PM
One cask of Tobermory Single Malt Scotch Whisky distilled on the 20/06/1994 currently maturing at Deanston Distillery in Scotland. Annual storage fees currently stand at £1.32 per week 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 on the 11/2022. The new re-gauged litres were found to be approximately 402 Bulk litres at a strength of 50.5%. This would currently yield approximately 574 x 70cl bottles of whisky currently at 28 years old.
- Distillery: Tobermory
- Distilled: 20/06/1994
- Current age: 28 years old
- Cask number: 5025
- Cask Type: Butt
- Original filled with: 320.1 litres of alcohol at 63.50%
- Original bulk litres: 504
- Current fill: 11/2022 - 204.20 litres of alcohol at 50.5%
- New bulk litres: 402
- Currently yielding: Approximately 574 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: Faint chocolate and wet wood, paprika, hazelnuts, a slight hint of blackcurrant liquorice sweets. Now the oak comes through; notes of wet earth, old autumn leaves and smoked vanilla custard. Grassy honeysuckle notes in the background. Water lifts bark, soil and woody notes to the fore.
Palate: Medium-full. Sweet and spicy, with flashes of pepper and chilli powder at full strength. Digestive biscuits, clove spices, some raisins, cinnamon and cocoa powder, with Cadbury’s Fruit & Nut and a backbone of firm old oak. Becomes more grassy and biscuity with water, but still retains its spiciness.
Finish: Very good length, warming, peppery with a swirl of grassy notes. Clove, cinnamon and other hot spices linger longest.
Comment: An old fashioned and quite savoury dram, almost like an aged mezcal at some points. An intriguing web of sweet cocoa notes and some nice grassy, malty elements with prominent spices. This a dram of admirable depth with plenty of pleasing side notes to unpack.
Tobermory distillery on the Isle of Mull was founded as Ledaig in 1798 but has had a turbulent history with long periods of closure - Ledaig distillery was operational for a total of less than six years between 1930 and 1989.
After four decades of silence, a brief post-refurbishment spell between 1972 and 1975 produced the Ledaig distillery’s greatest ever malt whiskies, dense and heavily peated. In 1979 the distillery reopened as Tobermory, but production was sporadic and both quality and peating levels were very inconsistent; the distillery was closed again between 1982 and 1989.
In 1993 Burn Stewart bought Tobermory and reinstituted the production of both unpeated spirit (Tobermory) and heavily-peated spirit (Ledaig). Finally under stable ownership, Tobermory slowly began to thrive, particularly after Distell’s 2013 acquisition of Burn Stewart, and the heavy, uncompromising Ledaig now has a cult following.
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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| £46,600.00 | 22nd March 2023 | 20:23 | |
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