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Kinclaith 1969-2004 - 35 Year Old - Duncan Taylor - Rarest Of The Rare - Single Cask 301455

LOT ID: 0724-144


End Date : Sep 11 2024 08:00 PM


Total Bids: 103   

Winning Bid
£775.00


LOT DESCRIPTION

Kinclaith 1969 - 2004. 35 Year Old. Bottled by Duncan Taylor for their Rarest Of The Rare series. Cask number 301455. One of 207 bottles. 70cl. 52.8%. In wooden presentation box with matching miniature and branded glass.

The first of a small series of Duncan Taylor bottlings of Kinclaith 1969, this 35-year-old single cask was bottled in 2004 at its natural strength of 52.8%. Part of the Strathclyde grain distillery complex in Glasgow, Kinclaith operated only between 1957-1975, and as the whisky was only ever intended for the blending vats, surviving casks were very scarce even before this edition appeared. Duncan Taylor would go on to bottle three more sister casks of Kinclaith 1969, with the most recent in 2020 being the last known bottling from the distillery.

CONDITION

Scratched box.

FILLING LEVEL

Into Neck

Distillery:  Kinclaith

Distillery Status:  Closed

Bottler: Duncan Taylor

Region: Lowland

Distilled Year: 1969

Bottling Year: 2004

Age: 35

Bottles Produced: 207

Limited Edition: yes

Cask Number: 301455

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 70cl / 700ml

ABV: 52.8%

Kinclaith distillery came to life in 1957, when two pot stills were installed at the Strathclyde grain distillery in Glasgow. Kinclaith’s Lowland single malt whisky was made for owner Seager Evans’ blended whiskies, most notably Long John, but the distillery was dismantled in 1975 by new owners Whitbread to accommodate an expansion of Strathcyde’s grain whisky capacity.

Kinclaith was never officially bottled, but independent bottlings by Cadenhead’s and Gordon & MacPhail began in the late 1970s and early 1980s. More recently some 1969 and 1975 Kinclaiths were bottled by Signatory and Duncan Taylor, but the last of these appeared in 2020, so it seems possible that the last cask has been bottled. Kinclaith’s quality was generally surprisingly high and its rarity means that this is one of the most valuable ‘unicorn’ malts at auction.

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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BID HISTORY

BID DATE TIME
Last Bids £775.00 11th September 2024 17:08