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Glenugie 1966 - 1996. 30 Year Old. Bottled by Signatory Vintage. Cask number 848. One of 180 bottles. 70cl. 58%. In presentation box.
A single cask of Glenugie’s famed 1966 vintage. This Glenugie 1966 30-year-old Highland single malt whisky was released by indie bottlers Signatory Vintage in 1996 and was bottled without colouring or chill filtration from single cask 848, yielding 180 bottles at its extraordinary natural cask strength of 58%.
Although its name is synonymous with quality in learned whisky circles, Glenugie is one of the less well known lost distilleries, as very few casks escaped the blending vats after its closure in 1983. Typically a rich, fat, oily and fruity whisky, Glenugie’s first official bottling did not appear until 2010, almost 30 years after the distillery’s doors had closed for the final time.
Glenugie distillery closed in 1983 and is one of the most-lamented of the lost Highland distilleries. Originally founded in 1831 as Invernettie, the distillery had a chequered past before being taken over and modernised in the 1950s and ‘60s by Schenley / Long John Distillers. Glenugie spent its active life in the shadows, with the first bottlings from Cadenhead’s and Gordon & MacPhail appearing around the end of the 1970s, just a few years before the distillery closed for good.
Glenugie was rarely bottled as a single malt, but the casks that survived have almost all been outstanding. Now owned by Pernod Ricard, at the time of writing only three official Glenugies have ever been released, the first of which appeared in 2010. Independent bottlings of Glenugie, the best examples of which are from Signatory Vintage, Cadenhead’s, The Bottlers, Douglas Laing, Gordon & MacPhail and Sestante command a premium at auction due to their scarcity and exceptionally high quality.
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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