LOT ID: 1024-777
TIME REMAINING
End Date : Jan 08 2025 08:00 PM
One cask of Lochindaal/Bruichladdich Single Malt Scotch Whisky distilled in 2007 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 November 2024. The new re-gauged litres were found to be approximately 149 bulk litres at a strength of 61.1%. This would currently yield approximately 212 x 70cl bottles of cask strength whisky, currently at 17 years old.
- Distillery: Lochindaal/Bruichladdich
- Originally filled: 2007
- Current age: 17 years old
- Cask number: 3403
- Cask type: Bourbon Hogshead
- Original filled with: 136.1 litres of alcohol
- Current cask strength: 61.1%
- Original Bulk Litres: 194 Litres
- New re-gauged bulk litres: 149 Litres
- Currently yielding: Approximately 212 x 70cl bottles
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Whisky-Online Auctions Tasting Notes:
Nose: Bold and complex! An initial flourish of Fruit and spice in waves, Black pepper and melon, anise and orange peel acts as an overcoat to earthy smoke and vanilla, stewed plum with cinnamon buns and pan au chocolate. Notes from the bakery keep coming with crusty loaves and sour dough wafting for an age.
Palate: A thick and coating mouthfeel followed once again with big notes of fruit and spice, grapefruit and cinnamon, pineapple and clove, melon and nutmeg surrounded in a light fruity foggy smoke. Maybe a touch of roasted fennel and honey with sharp lime citrus sprits in dark chocolate keep the palate alive and fizzing wonderfully.
Finish: Long and mellowing with the lime dissipating into warm panettone and barley sugar, I light fog of baking spice and smoke that lingers for an age.
Comments: This is a spectacular example of 2007 Peated Bruichladdich, the luxurious mouth feel and balance of fruit and spice is as perfect as anyone could reasonably wish for in the make. It also offers the flexibility of further aging should the purchaser have more of a spicey preference in the final delivery. An excellent marriage of spirit and cask from a highly sort after distillery. A great opportunity for anyone with even a passing interest in the distillery. Suffice to say - Good ‘Laddie!
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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| £5,000.00 | 6th January 2025 | 10:18 | |
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