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One cask of Tullibardine distilled in 2005 currently maturing at Tullibardine distillery in Scotland. The new owner must make arrangements directly with the warehouse thereafter. Contact details will be given by the current cask owner. Storage costs are approximately £32.50 per annum.
This cask was re-gauged 3-3-2026. The new re-gauged litres were found to be approximately 199.0 bulk litres at a strength of 56.0%. This would currently yield approximately 284 x 70cl bottles.
- Distillery:Tullibardine
- Originally filled: 23-2-2005
- Current age: 21 year old
- Cask number: 32
- Cask type: Hogshead
- Original filled with: 165.4 litres of alcohol
- Original bulk litres: 260.5 litres
- Original strength: 63.6%
- Current new bulk litres: 199.0 litres
- Current new litres of alcohol: 112.5 litres
- Current cask strength: 56.0%
- Currently yielding: Approximately 284 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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Non-UK based owners/buyers must appoint a Duty Representative to act on his/her behalf for transfer of ownership. Customs & Excise refer to the owners as the representative’s. Please be aware of this regulation before bidding. We can assist you in getting a UK representative if required.
Please note that the cask sample bottle shown is for illustration purposes only and does not form part of the sale.
Whisky-Online Auctions Tasting Notes: Tullibardine 2005 - Cask 32 - 56.0%
Nose: Charred bark and old leather chairs with flambeed spiced demerara sugar. Thick damson and raisin reductions and meaty dark broths, then black treacle with shavings of mace and cracked black pepper.
Palate: Burned cinnamon buns with shavings of orange rind and warm sticky oak spices. Forest floors, dark chocolate and dry mushrooms followed by drying Sichuan pepper and rusting iron and a touch of Valencian orange tonic.
Finish: Warm dry and long with bitter tonics and baking spices in abundance.
Comments: This is a sherry bombers sherry bomb. Big wood spices and thick rancio mingling with complex bitterness and a drying finish. Buy it and bottle without delay.
Like many of the other T distilleries, with the honourable exception of Talisker, Tullibardine is not a single malt that sets many hearts a-flutter. The distillery suffered under Whyte & MacKay’s chaotic management in the 1990s and was mothballed between 1994 and 2003, when it was sold to a private consortium.
Tullibardine’s new owners recommenced production and moved from supplying only blends and own-label bottlings to launching a range of Tullibardine official releases. Crucially, they also reracked a large proportion of the maturing stock from tired refill casks into fresh wine barriques.
Following the 2009 financial crisis, Tullibardine was sold in 2011 to French company Picard, who have done a good job expanding and repackaging the single malt range to raise the distillery’s profile. Long-aged official and independent bottlings of Tullibardine are good value at auction, particularly sherry-aged 1960s and 1970s vintages.
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.
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