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Glenrothes-Glenlivet 1992 - 2017. 25 Year Old. Bottled by Cadenhead's for their Black Label series. Bottled for the Japanese Mark. Single Cask. One of 246 bottles matured in a Bourbon Hogshead. 70cl. 50.1%. In presentation box.
This whisky was one of over 150 bottlings released by Cadenhead’s during 2017, the year they celebrated the 175th anniversary of their founding in 1842, when George Duncan opened his original wine merchant and distillers agency business on Netherkirkgate in Aberdeen.
As you might expect for such a significant anniversary, all the stops were pulled out for the celebrations and some outstanding cask strength whiskies were bottled for the occasion over the course of 2017, the vast majority of which were single casks. These Cadenhead’s Black Label Single Casks were issued with the tartan 175th Anniversary box and neck tag throughout 2017 before changing back to their original black boxes afterwards.
One of Speyside’s larger distilleries, Glen Moray was the black sheep of Macdonald & Muir’s portfolio for decades, where it was understandably overshadowed by Glenmorangie (and later Ardbeg). The distillery was sold by Glenmorangie plc’s owners LVMH to French company La Martiniquaise at the end of 2008, since when it has supplied fillings for Label 5 blended whisky, which is unknown in the UK but is one of the bestselling Scotch whisky brands worldwide.
Away from the bottom shelf wine finishes first popularised in the Glenmorangie era, official bottlings of Glen Moray have included some superb old vintage editions, with the 1959 40-year-old and several excellent 1960s-70s vintage bottlings demonstrating what the distillery was really capable of. La Martiniquaise have not changed the formula much but deserve credit for releasing further prestige editions including the recent Glen Moray Mastery.
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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