LOT ID: 0624-100
End Date : Aug 07 2024 08:10 PM
One cask of Bruichladdich Single Malt Scotch Whisky distilled on the 12/05/2003 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 on the14/06/24. The new re-gauged litres were found to be approximately 145 bulk litres at a strength of 57.3%. This would currently yield approximately 207 x 70cl bottles of cask strength whisky, currently at 21 years old.
- Distillery: Bruichladdich
- Originally filled: 12/05/2003
- Current age: 21 years old
- Cask number: 132
- Cask type: Hogshead
- Original filled with: 144.7 litres of alcohol at 71.5%
- Original bulk litres: 201
- Current cask strength 57.3%
- New re-gauged bulk litres: 145
- Currently yielding: Approximately 207 x 70cl bottles
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Whisky-Online Auctions Tasting Notes:
Nose: Islay’s Bruichladdich Distillery reopened in 2001 and few distilleries can claim to have enjoyed such a successful reintroduction to the Whisky world. Pioneering the idea of “Progressive Highland Distilling” this cask of unpeated ‘Laddie, distilled in 2003, comfortably takes its place among some of the most popular vintages of the distillery’s modern era. With a pronounced fruit driven nose pear drops and tarte du citron, topped with coconut icing and vanilla fudge blanketing luxuriously. Before porridge oats and Chantilly cream act soften to balance the aromatic experience. Slender inflections of cinnamon, ginger, milk chocolate, lime zest and panettone engage and disguise a far of sea fog.
Palate: We’re going deep, with bitter and gooey dark chocolate fondant and strong dry spice from cracked black pepper, syrupy pears with lime zest give way to signature Bruichladdich “hot pebbles on a sandy beach”, undeniably indicative of the make and vintage. Coal dust, orange chews and juicy grapefruit act as binding agents and promote the promise of a lavish encore.
Finish: A long and righteous memory of the nose and palate. Pears in syrup and tinned pineapples sprinkled with cinnamon and nutmeg, give way to salt baked seabass with a big wedge of lemon and underlying fruit salad for an age. This cask is essence of unpeated Bruichladdich, evocative of everything the distillery set out to achieve, and equally at home on the gantry of a high-end restaurant or sipping with your feet dangling off the pier at Port Charlotte at dusk.
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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| £12,200.00 | 7th August 2024 | 19:59 | |
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