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Ardbeg 1976 - 25 Year Old - Single Cask 2390 - Festival 2002

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End Date : Apr 02 2025 08:00 PM

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Ardbeg 1976 - 2002. 25 Year Old. Hand bottled at the distillery especially to celebrate Feis Ile 2002. Cask number 2390. One of 494 bottles from a sherry butt. 70cl. 53.1%. In presentation box.

A single cask Ardbeg 1976 bottled as a 25-year-old in 2002 and released to distillery visitors at Feis Ile, the Islay Festival of Whisky & Music. This sensational sherry butt was one of a string of drop dead gorgeous sister sherry casks of the 1976 vintage discovered by then distillery manager Stuart Thomson and bottled between 2000-2008. Cask 2390 yielded 494 bottles at a lip-smacking 53.1% and along with its sister casks has a deserved reputation as not just an all-time great single cask Ardbeg, but among the greatest Islay whiskies ever bottled.

This is a sister cask to the great Manager's Choice bottling and one of a run of Sherry Butts from the 2390s that have been officially bottled over the years by Glenmorangie. A spectacular and legendary batch of casks that have yielded some of the greatest Ardbegs ever. This one for VELIER is particularly hard to find. Fèis Ìle the Islay Festival is a gathering of whisky and Islay fans from across the globe.In the last week of May, they celebrate Islay, the culture, and the spirit over a ten day event that defines the whisky calendar.

Bottler: Distillery Bottling

Region: Islay

Distilled Year: 1976

Bottling Year: 2002

Age: 25

Bottles Produced: 494

Limited Edition: yes

Cask Number: 2390

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 70cl / 700ml

ABV: 53.1%

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.

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