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Glenugie 1980 - 2005. 24 Year Old. Bottled by The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Society cask number 99.8. Fruity Bakers Shop. 70cl. 51.4%. 89.9 Proof. No box.
A single cask Glenugie 1980 24-year-old released in 2005 by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society with the SMWS code 99.8 and the subtitle Fruity Baker’s Shop.
Bottled without colouring or chill filtration from a refill hogshead that yielded 358 bottles at its natural cask strength of 51.4%, this is one of only a tiny number of Glenugie casks that made their way to the indie bottlers after the distillery’s closure in 1983. The surviving bottlings of Glenugie’s single malt are almost without exception superb whiskies, and this is a case in point, while their scarcity ensures they are always keenly contested at auction.
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.
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) began in late 1970s Edinburgh when founder Pip Hills persuaded a group of friends to chip in for a cask of Glenfarclas, and was officially formalised in 1983. Today the SMWS has members rooms in Edinbrugh, Glasgow and London and a string of international partnerships serving its 40,000 members.
The Society’s whiskies are known for their unique SMWS coding system. Each cask bottled is assigned two numbers, representing the distillery and the bottling number, so 1.45 is the forty-fifth cask bottled from the first distillery and 33.27 is the 27th cask from the 33rd distillery.
Glenmorangie bought the Society in 2004, but sold it in 2015 to a private consortium who floated the SMWS on the stock market in 2021 via their holding company Artisanal Spirits Co.
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| £10.00 | 25th March 2026 | 09:28 PM | |
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