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Lagavulin 1987 - 2001. 14 Year Old. Bottled by The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Society cask number 111.16. Stables & Ash-Trays. One of 252 bottles. 70cl. 55.8%. 97.4 Proof. No box.
From the archives. "Stables and ash-trays. Global demand for this distinguished Islay malt is such that supplies of the proprietary bottling (at 16 years old) are rationed, and have been withdrawn from certain markets. We are very fortunate to have secured this cask and its a good one too.
At fourteen years, this example is full gold in colour, with a first nose of clean linen and chalk, backed by a light fruitiness, with becomes richer and deeper reminding us of farmyards. A trace of coal tar soap reveals its origin.
At full strength the flavour is sweet, soapy and smoky, with an aftertaste of ash-trays. Water introduces candlewicks or wax tapers, dries out the farmyards and softens the flavour: smooth with fragrant, herbal smoke then clean charcoal in the finish.
A classic if its kind." The original price for this bottle in 2001 was £50.
Glendronach is one of the most prominent and important distilleries in Scotland’s Highlands. The distillery was founded in the 1920s but came to wider attention in the 1960s after being taken over by Teacher’s, for which it was to become a key malt. After a low period under the notoriously careless Allied Distillers, Glendronach was revived under Billy Walker, whose Benriach Distillery Co. bought the distillery in 2008.
Walker turned around Glendronach’s fortunes by the simple expedient of great cask selection, a high quality core range and prestige bottlings of vintage sherry casks, which were already plentiful in the distillery’s inventory. This good work has continued since Walker sold the distillery to Brown Forman in 2016. At auction, 1970s sherry casks and old Teacher’s-era Glendronach bottlings are always worth seeking out, although prices now reflect the distillery’s popularity.
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.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £1,050.00 | 13th May 2026 | 06:13 PM | |
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