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Longrow 1990-2004 - 13 Year Old - SMWS 114.3 - Opening Of Queen Street



Lot ID:
1023-715

shipping rate:
3

Total Bids:
57   

Winning Bid
£200.00


End Date : Jan 03 2024 08:00 PM

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CONDITION

Creased box.

FILLING LEVEL

Lower Neck

LOT DESCRIPTION

Longrow 1990 - 2004. 13 Year Old. Bottled by The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Society cask number 114.3. Bottled for the opening of Queen St. 50cl. 54.5%. 95.3 Proof. In presentation box.

Distillery:  Longrow

Distillery Status:  Working

Bottler: The Scotch Malt Whisky Society

Region: Campbeltown

Distilled Year: 1990

Bottling Year: 2004

Age: 13

Limited Edition: yes

Cask Number: 114.3

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 50cl / 500ml

ABV: 54.5% / 95.3 Proof

Longrow is the name given to the heavily-peated, double-distilled single malt whisky made at Springbank distillery in Campbeltown. The barley used to distil Longrow is peated to around 50ppm and production of Longrow is currently about 10% of Springbank’s output. Longrow was made at Springbank for the first time in 1973 and 1974, and these vintages are considered classics and fetch the highest prices at auction. 

Longrow’s first standard bottling was the 10-year-old, which ran from 1985 until 2011; a popular 14-year-old was launched in 2004, followed by bottlings of Longrow aged in a variety of wine casks. The most popular of these is Longrow Red, which was first bottled in 2012, is usually aged between 10-14 years and receives an extended finish in red wine casks. 18-year-old and 21-year-old Longrows have also been bottled in recent years.

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.

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BID HISTORY

BID DATE TIME
Last Bids £200.00 3rd January 2024 05:39 PM