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Brora 1972 Rare Malts 22 Year Old / 58.7%

Lot: 222466

Brora 1972 Rare Malts 22 Year Old / 58.7%

Winning Bid: £5,000
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 16 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Brora
Age: 
22 Year Old
Vintage: 
1972
Region: 
Highland
Bottler: 
Official
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
58.7%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Brora 1972 Rare Malts 22 Year Old / 58.7%

The Rare Malts Selection was a historic selection of single malt whiskies from operational and lost distilleries that were released by Diageo between 1995 and 2005. As with the Flora & Fauna series, they were often from lesser-seen single malt distilleries.

Brora distillery, formerly known as Clynelish was initially closed after a new distillery was built next-door in 1967, and assumed the Clynelish name. The original distillery re-opened after a year's hiatus, and bottlings of the whisky it produced between then and its second closure in 1983 are now increasingly sought after. 

Although an extensive series of annual releases was to follow, the Rare Malts Selection were the first official distillery bottlings to bear the Brora name.

When Brora was re-opened in 1969 it was to produce heavily peated spirit to make up for a shortfall of Islay whisky after a drought on the island. Brora vintages from 1973 onwards reverted to the lightly peated Highland style. Many of the bottlings of this brief period of heavily peated vintages are legendary.

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