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Kinclaith 1965 Cadenhead's 20 Year Old Sherry Wood

Lot: 223018

Kinclaith 1965 Cadenhead's 20 Year Old Sherry Wood

Winning Bid: £1,207

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Kinclaith
Age: 
20 Year Old
Vintage: 
1965
Region: 
Lowland
Bottler: 
Wm. Cadenhead
Cask Type: 
Sherry Wood
Bottled Strength: 
46%
Bottle Size: 
75cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Kinclaith 1965 Cadenhead's 20 Year Old Sherry Wood

Wm. Cadenhead are Scotland's oldest independent bottler, operating for over 175 years, but perhaps none of their bottlings are as sought after as these 'dumpy' style bottles. These were produced with brown glass and an iconic black label (white for the occasional grain whisky), with each distillery given its own letterpress font in homage to William Cadenhead's early career in the printing business.

This is a 1965 vintage Kinclaith, bottled from sherry wood in March 1985.

Kinclaith is another of the short-lived malt distilleries that were built, mostly by American owners, within grain distilleries in the mid-20th century. On this occasion it was the Schenley company, who bought the parent firm of Strathclyde distillery, Seager Evans, in 1957. It built the Kinclaith malt distillery within the Strathclyde complex the same year, and they operated it until 1975 when Whitbread bought Strathclyde and ripped them back out again. Nearly all of the Kinclaith output was used for the Long John blends, and it was never officially bottled as a single malt. Some casks did make their way to the independent companies though, and an elusive batch of bottlings like this has been brought to market.

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