Bladnoch 1987-1999 - 11 Year Old - Signatory Vintage - Single Cask 40018 - Miniature

INFORMATION

Bladnoch 1987 - 1999. 11 Year Old. Bottled by Signatory Vintage. Cask number 40018. One of 3,120 miniatures. 5cl. 43%.

DISTILLERY:Bladnoch

DISTILLERY STATUS:Working

Bottle ABV:43%

Bottle SIZE:5cl / 50ml

Bottle PRODUCED:3,120

BOTTLER:Signatory Vintage

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK NUMBER:40018

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Lowland

DISTILLED YEAR:1987

BOTTLING DATE::1999

AGE:11

Founded in 1817, Bladnoch is a Lowland single malt distillery with a fragmented ownership and production history. Bladnoch was rebuilt in the 1950s and changed hands several times before ending up with United Distillers in the late 1980s. UD mothballed Bladnoch in 1993 and sold it the following year to Raymond Armstrong, who eventually won permission from Diageo to resume production in 2000. David Prior bought Bladnoch in 2015 after an internal dispute led to the liquidation of Armstrong’s business.

In the early 2000s Armstrong, who was only permitted to produce 100,000 litres of spirit a year, released several official Bladnochs from previous eras before bottling his own distillate, some of which was peated. Prior is under no such restrictions and the distillery now operates at its 1.5m litre capacity and releases single casks and a range of age statement whiskies. Independent Bladnoch appears regularly from Gordon & MacPhail, Wemyss and the SMWS, among others.