LOT ID: 0223-252
End Date : Mar 22 2023 08:00 PM
Arran 1997 - 2016 - 19 Year Old. Bottled by Cadenhead's for their Black Label series. Small Batch. One of 486 bottles from 1 x Bourbon Hogsheads and 1 x Sherry Hogshead. 70cl. 52.4%. In presentation box.
This whisky is part of an extensive collection of Cadenhead’s bottlings from a private vendor in this sale.
These Cadenhead’s Black Label Small Batch bottlings were a series of top class bottlings at 46% or full strength that first appeared in 2013 and were discontinued in 2020.
FILLING LEVEL
Upper Shoulder
Founded on the Isle of Arran in 1993, with the first distillation in 1995, the Lochranza distillery was the first of the new wave of Scottish distilleries and blazed a trail for the explosion in small ‘craft’ distillers this century. Lochranza distillery has four stills and makes both peated and unpeated whisky - the unpeated malt is bottled as Arran, while the peated spirit is released as Machrie Moor.
The early releases of Arran single malt were often small batch or single casks, the vast majority of which were finished in wine casks. The distillery’s first core bottling was Arran 10-year-old, which launched in 2006 and has since been joined by age statements up to 25 years old alongside a plethora of limited editions and single cask releases. Independent Arran is abundant and usually excellent quality.
In 1842 George Duncan established a wine merchant and distillery agency business in Aberdeen. Duncan was joined in the early 1850s by his brother-in-law William Cadenhead, who took over the business after Duncan’s death in 1858, changing the company’s name to Wm. Cadenhead. When Cadenhead died in 1904 the company passed to his nephew Robert Duthie, who developed the spirits side of the business.
Duthie died suddenly in 1931, and employee Ann Oliver was put in charge of Cadenhead’s. Sadly, Oliver’s tenure ended in financial difficulty and on her retirement in 1972 the business was forced to sell its entire inventory. Cadenhead’s was acquired soon afterwards by J & A Mitchell, proprietors of Springbank distillery, who relocated the business to Campbeltown. Cadenhead’s has flourished under Mitchell’s stewardship, releasing many legendary single malt bottlings in the 1980s and 1990s and now has outlets in Edinburgh and London as well as Campbeltown.
BID | DATE | TIME | |
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£90.00 | 22nd March 2023 | 19:18 | |