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Glenrothes 1989-2001


Highest Price: 2017 £62.50

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Glenrothes 1989-2001
Glenrothes 1989-2001
LOT ID: 0524-278

Winning Bid
£52.50

End Date: 03 Jul 2024
Glenrothes 1989-2001
Glenrothes 1989-2001
LOT ID: 0723-676

Winning Bid
£55.00

End Date: 13 Sep 2023
Glenrothes 1989-2001
Glenrothes 1989-2001
LOT ID: 0423-187

Winning Bid
£60.00

End Date: 31 May 2023
Glenrothes 1989-2001
Glenrothes 1989-2001
LOT ID: 323

Winning Bid
£50.00

End Date: 02 May 2018
Glenrothes 1989-2001
Glenrothes 1989-2001
LOT ID: 871

Winning Bid
£62.50

End Date: 01 Feb 2017

Glenrothes 1989-2001

Glenrothes 1989 - 2001. 700ml. 43%.

Distillery:  Glenrothes

Distillery Status:  Working

Bottler: Distillery Bottling

Region: Speyside

Distilled Year: 1989

Bottling Year: 2001

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 70cl / 700ml

ABV: 43%

Glenrothes is a much-loved Speyside distillery with a couple of notable claims to fame, namely that it was the keystone malt for Berry Bros & Rudd’s Cutty Sark blend from its launch in the 1920s, and in the 1990s it was the first distillery to specialise in vintage single malt releases. 

Founded in 1879, Glenrothes was expanded three times between 1963 and 1989, bringing the total number of stills to ten with a hefty production capacity of over 5.5m litres per year. The spirit seems to perform best with medium to long term maturation in sherry casks.

After sporadic old vintage releases in the 1970s under Highland Distillers (later fully acquired by Edrington), Glenrothes launched a core range of vintage single malts in 1994. A string of terrific vintage releases followed, including some astonishing 1960s casks. Although the vintage range has now been dropped, Glenrothes is remarkably consistent - just about any sherried release over 15 years old is likely to be terrific whisky.

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.