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Ben Nevis 1977. Bottled by Cadenhead's for their white label Cask Strength series. Single Cask 217. 70cl. 60.0%. No box.
A single cask Ben Nevis 1977 Highland single malt whisky released in the early 1990s as part of the independent bottler Cadenhead’s rare Distillery Label Cask Strength range, which featured an unusual (for Cadenhead’s) white label with a line drawing of the distillery.
These Cadenhead’s distillery label bottlings were often bottled for other retailers / export markets and their presentation was almost opposite to the familiar Cadenhead’s famous black label editions in their dumpy brown bottles. This cask strength Ben Nevis 1977 came from single cask 217 and weighs in at a particularly massive natural cask strength of 60%.
Only a dozen or so casks of Ben Nevis’s 1977 vintage were ever bottled, and Cadenhead’s were responsible for almost all of them, with a string of excellent examples appearing in the early to mid 1990s. These are big, powerful Highland malts, showing a complex mix of citrus, floral, spicy, fruity and mineral notes that are rarely, if ever, encountered nowadays.
Founded in 1825 by ‘Long John’ MacDonald, Ben Nevis is one of the classic Highland distilleries. Ben Nevis was purchased in the 1940s by Joseph Hobbs, who fitted a Coffey still enabling the distillery to produce both malt and grain whisky. A mothballed Ben Nevis was sold in 1981 to Long John Distillers (Whitbread), who refurbished the distillery and restarted production before selling up in 1989 to the Japanese firm Nikka, under whose stewardship the distillery has thrived.
For much of its early life Ben Nevis supplied the famous Dew of Ben Nevis blended whisky and single malt official bottlings were sporadic. That all changed after 1989, when Nikka bottled a 63-year-old Ben Nevis 1926 and embarked on an impressive run of vintage single casks and small batches alongside a core range 10-year-old. The early Nikka bottlings of 1960s & ‘70s vintages are particularly highly sought after. Independent Ben Nevis is abundant.
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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| £300.00 | 13th February 2026 | 12:51 AM | |
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