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Glendronach 1970 Crystal decanter. 20 Year Old. Sherry Cask. Bottled by Signatory Vintage. Cask numbers 513-518. 75cl. 43%.
A very rare decanter of small batch Glendronach 1970 bottled by Signatory Vintage. In July 1990, Signatory’s head honcho Andrew Symington vatted together a small batch of Glendronach comprising half a dozen casks from the 1970 vintage.
The bulk of this batch of sister casks, which were numbered 513-518, was released in the company’s now-famous dumpy bottles at cask strength, while a very small amount of the whisky was retained and reduced to 43% before being bottled as a special edition in handsome cut crystal decanters - incidentally, the same decanters that were used for the early Dalmore 50-year-old bottlings. A very elegant, heavily sherried Glendronach that makes a great after-dinner sipper at this strength.
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.
Signatory Vintage Whisky Company was founded by Andrew Symington in 1988 after a spell as assistant manager at the Prestonfield House Hotel, where he had the opportunity to buy a cask of Glenlivet 1968. A robust and canny businessman, Symington had soon acquired some outstanding parcels of casks from great distilleries, and quickly established a reputation among single malt fans for good value, high quality single casks, the majority of which were released at full strength.
Throughout the 1990s and beyond, Signatory released outstanding whisky from Ardbeg, Glenfarclas, Springbank and many more, with frequently remarkable examples of lost or obscure distilleries. Soon established as one of the leading new wave independent bottlers, Symington was also an early exponent of bottling whiskies without colouring or chill filtration, a policy that has also served Signatory well at their Edradour distillery, which was purchased in 2002.
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