End Date : Apr 01 2026 08:00 PM
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Linkwood 1974 - 2005. 30 Year Old. Bottled by Diageo for their Rare Malts Selection. 70cl. 54.9%. In presentation box.
An old Rare Malts bottling of Linkwood 1974 30-year-old released at cask strength in 2005 as one of the very last of the Rare Malts series. This was the fifth and oldest of the 1970s Linkwoods bottled for the Rare Malts range and was released without chill filtration at its natural cask strength of 54.9%.
Official bottlings of Linkwood at the time were limited to the Flora & Fauna editions, so these long-aged cask strength bottlings were for many whisky fans the first time they had encountered the distillery’s superb character at the height of its citrussy, spicy powers.
Linkwood is a large Speyside distillery making top class single malt whisky for owner Diageo’s portfolio of blends. Such is Linkwood’s importance to the blending industry that very little of its production is officially released, with only the mediocre Flora & Fauna edition and one horribly overpriced Special Release appearing in the last decade or so.
Much more rewarding are the terrific Rare Malts editions of Linkwood bottled from 1995-2005, all from 1970s vintages that showcase the distillery’s fantastically pure spirit style to great effect. There have also been numerous outstanding long-aged Linkwoods by Gordon & MacPhail, who were licensed bottlers of Linkwood for many years and have bottled the oldest Linkwoods yet released, the Private Collection editions from 1953 and 1956, both of which were over 60 years old.
Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.
This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £400.00 | 1st April 2026 | 07:48 PM | |
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