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Glendronach 12 Year Old. Matured in Sherry Casks. Bottled late 1980s, early 1990s. 75cl. 40%. In presentation box.
An old bottle of Glendronach 12-year-old Highland single malt whisky. This edition was matured entirely in sherry casks and was bottled around the turn of the 1990s or shortly thereafter.
Glendronach was having a bit of an identity crisis at the time this 12-year-old was in circulation. After a period in the 1970s and early 1980s when the official 12-year-old showed little sherry influence, from around the mid-1980s onwards there were two different versions of Glendronach 12-year-old, namely the Glendronach Original 12-year-old, which used both sherry casks and ‘plain oak’ refill casks, and this Glendronach 12-year-old Sherry-Matured, which used entirely sherry casks for maturation. Needless to say, this sherried version is more popular nowadays.
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.
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| £240.00 | 7th January 2026 | 07:54 PM | |
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