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Cadenheads 7 Star Special Pure Malt - 1960s

LOT ID: 0623-677


End Date : Aug 09 2023 08:00 PM


Total Bids: 11   

Winning Bid
£490.00


LOT DESCRIPTION

Cadenhead's 7 Star. Bottled 1960s. 26 2/3 Fl Ozs. 85 Proof. In presentation box.

The 1960s were not a particularly happy time for Cadenhead’s, whose financial problems would lead to the sale of the company’s entire inventory at the beginning of the 1970s. Nevertheless, the spirit of innovation was clearly still thriving - Cadenhead’s 7 Star Special Pure Malt was a luxury vatted malt crafted from seven different single malts aged between 12 and 20 years old, and was bottled at a lipsmacking 85 Imperial proof - equivalent to 48.6% alcohol by volume. We’d love to know which distilleries were in the recipe for this one.

CONDITION

Damaged hinges.

FILLING LEVEL

Upper Shoulder

Bottler: Cadenhead's

Bottling Year: 1960s

Category: Blended Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 26 2/3 Fl Ozs

ABV: 85 Proof

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.

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BID HISTORY

BID DATE TIME
Last Bids £490.00 9th August 2023 17:54