End Date : Feb 19 2025 08:10 PM
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One cask of Bruichladdich Single Malt Scotch Whisky distilled in 2004 currently maturing at Bruichladdich Distillery in Scotland. Annual storage fees currently stand at £36.29 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 08/01/2025. The new re-gauged litres were found to be approximately 142 bulk litres at a strength of 59.3%. This would currently yield approximately 202 x 70cl bottles of cask strength whisky, currently at 20 years old.
- Distillery: Bruichladdich
- Originally filled: 30/6/2004
- Current age: 20 years old
- Cask number: 639
- Cask type: Fresh Bourbon Barrel
- Original filled with:141.4 litres of alcohol
- Current cask strength: 59.3%
- Original bulk Litres: 197 litres
- New re-gauged bulk litres: 142 litres
- Currently yielding: Approximately 202 x 70cl bottles
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Whisky-Online Auctions Tasting Notes:
Nose: Pronounced classic Islay from bourbon. Wafts of smoke mingling with vanillas, estery pear drops and spiced pastry. Unctuous Pasteis de nata, cinnamon buns and pear tarts directly out of a coal fired oven. Some sharpness from lemon and lime curd. All sprinkled with a sweet smoke which dissipates with a pleasant sea breeze on a grassy beach…
Palate: Alive and vibrant, lemon on a warm coal scuttle with freshly milled black pepper and barbequed sea bass (charred crispy skin to boot). Dry spice in the form of mase and clove down the centre of the palate with warm baking spices outlying.
Finish: Long and dry. Peat smoke with the return of black pepper making way for lemon once more.
Comments: A classic illustration of peated Bruichladdich. Spirit dominant, even in its early twenties, this 2004 vintage has the potential to further develop into a even more well composed whisky with time.
Founded in 1881, Bruichladdich was taken over in 1968 by Invergordon Distillers, who expanded the distillery to four stills in 1975, but allowed the otherwise unmodernised Bruichladdich to decline in the 1980s. In 1995, with Invergordon now under Whyte & Mackay’s shaky stewardship, Bruichladdich was mothballed. Thankfully the distillery was revitalised under a consortium led by Murray McDavid’s Mark Reynier, who bought Bruichladdich in 2000.
With the effervescent Jim McEwan on board as distillery manager, Bruichladdich’s fortunes swiftly improved. Bruichladdich's whisky had traditionally been unpeated, but McEwan soon began experimenting with higher peat levels and embraced the wine finishing trend with gusto. In 2012, the revived Bruichladdich was sold to Rémy Cointreau.
Invergordon bottled unpeated Bruichladdich at various ages and strengths from the 1970s onwards, with the earlier bottlings far outshining the later ones. The Murray McDavid regime issued a blizzard of mostly wine-finished casks and introduced the heavily peated Port Charlotte and Octomore malts, which have found an avid fanbase. Independent Bruichladdich is widely available and generally high quality.
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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| £11,200.00 | 19th February 2025 | 19:51 | |
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