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Glen Albyn 1979 - 2008. 28 Year Old. Bottled by The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Society cask number 69.14. Complex & Delightful. 70cl. 57.6%. 100.8 Proof. No box.
A single cask Glen Albyn 1979 28-year-old Highland single malt whisky released in 2008 by independent bottlers The Scotch Malt Whisky Society at full cask strength with the SMWS code 69.14 and the soubriquet Complex and Delightful. Interestingly, a second bottling was issued by the SMWS with the 69.14 code three years later after a cock-up within the Society’s inventory records.
Glen Albyn is one of the lost Inverness distilleries, and is known for its austere and sometimes difficult old school Highland profile, with unusual chalky, minerally or sour/bitter notes creeping in alongside the fruit and biscuity flavours. For lovers of this old school austerity, few distilleries can match Glen Albyn.
Glen Albyn is one of the Highland's lost malt whisky distilleries. The distillery was built in Inverness in 1844 but was closed by Diageo forerunner Distillers Company Ltd in 1983 during the whisky lake crisis, and was later demolished to make way for a supermarket. Glen Albyn had one pair of stills and used traditional worm tubs, making a very old school, austere ‘unsexy’ Highland single malt whisky, often with grassy, cereal and minerally notes.
The only modern official bottling of Glen Albyn was a Rare Malts 1975 26-year-old from 2002, though there was a short-lived 10-year-old OB in the 1970s and some earlier 8-year-olds are known to exist. Indie bottlings of Glen Albyn have dried up in recent years, with only a handful of Gordon & MacPhail editions appearing since 2011. If any more casks of Glen Albyn do still exist, it seems likely they are resting in G&M's famous Elgin warehouses.
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) began in late 1970s Edinburgh when founder Pip Hills persuaded a group of friends to chip in for a cask of Glenfarclas, and was officially formalised in 1983. Today the SMWS has members rooms in Edinbrugh, Glasgow and London and a string of international partnerships serving its 40,000 members.
The Society’s whiskies are known for their unique SMWS coding system. Each cask bottled is assigned two numbers, representing the distillery and the bottling number, so 1.45 is the forty-fifth cask bottled from the first distillery and 33.27 is the 27th cask from the 33rd distillery.
Glenmorangie bought the Society in 2004, but sold it in 2015 to a private consortium who floated the SMWS on the stock market in 2021 via their holding company Artisanal Spirits Co.
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