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Glenugie 1981 - 2006. 25 Year Old. Bottled byDuncan Taylor for their Rarest Of The Rare series. Cask number 5158. One of 323 bottles matured in a Sherry Cask. 700ml. 51.5%. In presentation box.
A single cask Glenugie 1981 25-year-old released in 2006 by indie bottlers Duncan Taylor for their Rarest of the Rare series, which was a dedicated range focused entirely on whiskies from lost distilleries. This 1981 Glenugie came from single cask 5158, which was a sherry cask that was bottled without colouring or chill filtration, yielding 323 bottles at its natural cask strength of 51.5%. Sherried Glenugie is always a delight, with the distillery’s fruity spirit dovetailing wonderfully with rich raisin and Christmas cake notes.
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.
Duncan Taylor was founded in 1938, originally as a cask broker. The Glasgow-based company was acquired in the 1960s by the American blender and entrepreneur Abe Rosenberg, who amassed a large stock of maturing casks. Following Rosenberg’s death in 1994 the Duncan Taylor business lay dormant until the early 2000s, when the trustees offered some casks to businessmen Euan Shand and Alan Gordon.
Shand and Gordon were so impressed with Duncan Taylor’s stock that they bought the company in 2002 and began bottling some of Rosenberg’s best casks. A string of extraordinary bottlings of Longmorn, Macallan, Bowmore and Springbank were released under the now defunct Peerless range and today Duncan Taylor, with Shand in full control since 2006, is established as one of Scotland’s most interesting independent bottlers.
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| £400.00 | 1st April 2026 | 07:45 PM | |
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