LOT ID: 0223-203
End Date : Mar 22 2023 08:00 PM
Knockdhu 2006 - 2017. 10 Year Old. Bottled by Cadenhead's for their Black Label series. Small Batch. One of 768 bottles matured in 3 x Bourbon Hogsheads. 70cl. 56.5%. In presentation box.
This whisky was one of over 150 bottlings released by Cadenhead’s during 2017, the year they celebrated the 175th anniversary of their founding in 1842, when George Duncan opened his original wine merchant and distillers agency business on Netherkirkgate in Aberdeen.
As you might expect for such a significant anniversary, all the stops were pulled out for the celebrations and some outstanding cask strength whiskies were bottled for the occasion over the course of 2017. These Cadenhead’s Black Label Small Batch were issued with the tartan 175th Anniversary box and neck tag throughout 2017 before changing back to their original black boxes afterwards. Cadenhead’s Small Batch whiskies were discontinued in 2020.
FILLING LEVEL
Upper Shoulder
Knockdhu is a Highland distillery whose clean, high quality single malt whisky is officially bottled as An Cnoc, due to the perceived likelihood of confusion with the Knockando distillery. Inver House bought Knockdhu in 1988 from Diageo forerunners United Distillers, who had mothballed the distillery in 1983. Production at Knockdhu began again in 1989 and Inver House introduced the An Cnoc name in the early 1990s for a shortlived 12-year-old official bottling.
After reverting to the Knockdhu name for a pair of highly-regarded 21-year-old and 23-year-old Knockdhu official bottlings at the turn of the millennium, the An Cnoc brand was given a transformative overhaul by Inver House for a hugely successful relaunch in 2003. A variety of vintage and age statement bottlings have appeared since, alongside several no-age-statement bottlings and even some peated whiskies. Independent bottlings of Knockdhu are relatively rare.
In 1842 George Duncan established a wine merchant and distillery agency business in Aberdeen. Duncan was joined in the early 1850s by his brother-in-law William Cadenhead, who took over the business after Duncan’s death in 1858, changing the company’s name to Wm. Cadenhead. When Cadenhead died in 1904 the company passed to his nephew Robert Duthie, who developed the spirits side of the business.
Duthie died suddenly in 1931, and employee Ann Oliver was put in charge of Cadenhead’s. Sadly, Oliver’s tenure ended in financial difficulty and on her retirement in 1972 the business was forced to sell its entire inventory. Cadenhead’s was acquired soon afterwards by J & A Mitchell, proprietors of Springbank distillery, who relocated the business to Campbeltown. Cadenhead’s has flourished under Mitchell’s stewardship, releasing many legendary single malt bottlings in the 1980s and 1990s and now has outlets in Edinburgh and London as well as Campbeltown.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £35.00 | 22nd March 2023 | 16:46 | |
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