End Date : Nov 12 2025 08:17 PM
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Glendronach 12 Year Old. Bottled 1980s. 75cl. 40%. No box.
A lovely old dumpy green bottle of Glendronach 12-year-old Highland single malt whisky bottled most likely in the 1980s.
Glendronach 12-year-old has gone through several different incarnations over the decades, with various iterations bottled at both 40% and 43%, and many of the distillery’s long-term aficionados would count these old green dumpies as one of the greatest iterations of this classic Highland dram, particularly the higher strength editions. The best of these bottlings show a delightfully rich, oily palate packed with waxy sweet orchard and exotic fruit flavours.
Glendronach is one of the most prominent and important distilleries in Scotland’s Highlands. The distillery was founded in the 1920s but came to wider attention in the 1960s after being taken over by Teacher’s, for which it was to become a key malt. After a low period under the notoriously careless Allied Distillers, Glendronach was revived under Billy Walker, whose Benriach Distillery Co. bought the distillery in 2008.
Walker turned around Glendronach’s fortunes by the simple expedient of great cask selection, a high quality core range and prestige bottlings of vintage sherry casks, which were already plentiful in the distillery’s inventory. This good work has continued since Walker sold the distillery to Brown Forman in 2016. At auction, 1970s sherry casks and old Teacher’s-era Glendronach bottlings are always worth seeking out, although prices now reflect the distillery’s popularity.
Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.
This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £210.00 | 12th November 2025 | 08:07 PM | |
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