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Tormore 1989-2001 - 11 Year Old - Signatory Vintage - Single Cask 920260



Lot ID:
0325-195

shipping rate:
3

Total Bids:
12   

Winning Bid
£37.50


End Date : May 14 2025 08:00 PM

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CONDITION

Good.

FILLING LEVEL

Into Neck

LOT DESCRIPTION

Tormore 1989 - 2001. 11 Year Old. Bottled by Signatory Vintage. Cask number 920260. One of 962 bottles matured in a Refill Sherry Butt. 70cl. 43%. In presentation tin.

Distillery:  Tormore

Distillery Status:  Working

Bottler: Signatory Vintage

Region: Speyside

Distilled Year: 1989

Bottling Year: 2001

Age: 11

Bottles Produced: 962

Limited Edition: yes

Cask Number: 920260

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 70cl / 700ml

ABV: 43%

Completed in 1959, Tormore was the first new distillery built in Scotland in the 20th century. Tormore's distillery buildings are endearingly incongruous neoclassical agglomerations of granite and glass with verdigris copper rooftops and a musical clock, in front of which some modest topiary and an almost apologetic water feature face directly onto the A95 a stone’s throw from Cragganmore. 

Tormore is one of the quietest distilleries in Speyside in terms of bottlings, with former owners Pernod Ricard reserving the vast majority of its output for their Chivas Brothers subsidiary’s portfolio of blended whiskies. Official bottlings of Tormore are scarce but in the last few years a string of strikingly good long-aged casks of late 1980s and early 1990s vintage Tormore have appeared from indie bottlers.

In June 2022 it was announced that Pernod Ricard had sold Tormore to Elixir Distillers, from whom they had bought The Whisky Exchange the previous November.

Signatory Vintage Whisky Company was founded by Andrew Symington in 1988 after a spell as assistant manager at the Prestonfield House Hotel, where he had the opportunity to buy a cask of Glenlivet 1968. A robust and canny businessman, Symington had soon acquired some outstanding parcels of casks from great distilleries, and quickly established a reputation among single malt fans for good value, high quality single casks, the majority of which were released at full strength.

Throughout the 1990s and beyond, Signatory released outstanding whisky from Ardbeg, Glenfarclas, Springbank and many more, with frequently remarkable examples of lost or obscure distilleries. Soon established as one of the leading new wave independent bottlers, Symington was also an early exponent of bottling whiskies without colouring or chill filtration, a policy that has also served Signatory well at their Edradour distillery, which was purchased in 2002.

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BID HISTORY

BID DATE TIME
Last Bids £37.50 14th May 2025 07:46 PM