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Scapa 1988 Cadenhead's 8 Year Old 75cl / US Import

Lot: 221317

Scapa 1988 Cadenhead's 8 Year Old 75cl / US Import

Winning Bid: £130

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Scapa
Age: 
8 Year Old
Vintage: 
1988
Region: 
Island
Bottler: 
Wm. Cadenhead
Cask Type: 
n/a
Bottled Strength: 
64.5%
Bottle Size: 
75cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Scapa 1988 Cadenhead's 8 Year Old 75cl / US Import

The Authentic Collection was launched by Wm. Cadenhead in 1991, and included whiskies from several rare closed Scottish and Irish distilleries, bottled for the company's 150th anniversary. It would later go on to become a mainstay of their portfolio, as the cask strength alternative to the Original Collection, which replaced their famous "dumpy" bottlings in the early 1990s. The Authentic Collection is now the flagship Cadenhead brand, and one of the most recognisable independent labels on the market.

This 1988 vintage Scapa was bottled for the US market in September 1996.

Scapa distillery was the third to be constructed on Orkney, preceded by Highland Park and Stromness, although out-lasting the latter. It was built in 1885, and its early history was blighted with fires and closures. It was bought by Canadian giants, Hiram Walker, in 1954. As with several of their other distilleries, they experimented with the use of Lomond stills, installing Scapa's in 1959. Although itwas decommissioned 20 years later, the still itself continues to be used, now without the rectifying plates. It is the only one of this type still producing Scotch whisky. Its single malt has been bottled since the 1970s, first under license by Gordon & MacPhail, with a 10 year old distillery bottling then launched in the 1980s. Scapa has since passed through the hands of Allied Distillers and is now part of the Pernod-Ricard portfolio. 

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