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Ardbeg 1975 - 2006. 31 Year Old. Cask number 1375. One of 522 bottles matured in a Sherry Butt. 70cl. 54.2%. In presentation box.
A single cask Ardbeg 1975 31-year-old Islay single malt whisky released by the distillery at full strength without colouring or chill filtration in 2006. Cask 1375 was a sherry cask and was bottled early in November 2006 as a Christmas release for the Ardbeg Committee. With an output of 522 bottles at a weighty 54.2%, this was one of around a dozen or so spectacular sherry casks of Ardbeg’s 1975 vintage released in the first decade of this century that really stoked the hype around the distillery and cemented Ardbeg’s position as a cult Islay whisky.
This is one of the last 1970s single cask of Ardbeg they bottled and a sherry butt no less. A really beautiful combination of sherry and peat, the kind of quality that built this distillery's reputation a new in the late 1990s. Incredible whisky.
Founded in 1815, Ardbeg is one of Islay’s iconic distilleries. Ardbeg was purchased by Diageo forerunners DCL and Hiram Walker in 1973, with Walker taking full control in 1977, the year the distillery’s maltings were closed. Ardbeg was mothballed for most of the 1980s; production began again in 1989 under new owners Allied Lyons, but only for two months a year until 1996 when the distillery closed again. In 1997 the dilapidated Ardbeg distillery was bought by Glenmorangie plc (now part of LVMH) and its fortunes turned. Ardbeg was restored and relaunched, kickstarting the craze for heavily peated single malt whisky.
Ardbeg was seldom commercially available before the Allied/DCL takeover - the old white label official bottlings are now very rare. Allied bottled a handful of black label Ardbegs in the 1990s including the popular Ardbeg 30-year-old. The breakthrough bottlings were the Ardbeg 17-year-old and Ardbeg 1974 Provenance released by Glenmorangie in 1997 - these were soon followed by numerous magnificent single casks from 1970s vintages that cemented Ardbeg’s reputation. Independent Ardbeg is uncommon nowadays.
Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.
This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £1,900.00 | 2nd April 2025 | 19:28 | |
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